Strategic Culture – April 19, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron wants a truce in Ukraine and Gaza for the duration of the Olympic Games in Paris this summer.
Macron said this week that his proposal is consistent with the ancient concept of an Olympic Truce when, historically, hostilities would be put to the side to showcase higher ideals of human fraternity and peaceful aspiration. In short, demonstration of the edifying notion that sport is above politics.
Russia responded that it was not against the idea in principle. However, Moscow pointed out that Macron’s Olympic peace idea lacks any practical details to vouchsafe a genuine initiative.
To put it more bluntly, the French leader has no credibility to proffer such a potentially important accord. His vague proposal is riddled with contradictions.
Only a few weeks ago, Macron was airing the idea of sending NATO troops to fight in Ukraine against Russia. He has not retracted that reckless provocation, which could escalate the conflict to a world war between nuclear powers.
Now we are to believe that Monsieur President is a tribune for world peace.
Paris and other NATO capitals are desperately pushing for more weapons to be sent to the NeoNazi regime in Kiev. The NATO proxy war against Russia is in its third year and is increasingly looking like a lost cause for Washington and its Western allies. Not one Western leader is prepared to give up the ghost of this bloody debacle to strategically defeat Russia by exploring a diplomatic solution to the war.
How then can Macron’s supposed concern for an Olympic Truce be taken seriously?
As for Gaza, France and its NATO partners have been complicit in sponsoring a genocide over the past six and half months. The Israeli regime’s massacre of over 34,000 Palestinians – a death toll that mounts every week – and its continuing starvation siege on the Gaza Strip are crucially enabled by the military and political support of the United States and the European Union.
As if that is not bad enough, France, the United States and Britain are de facto supporting Israel’s aggression towards Iran, as well as Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen. The Western trio are helping Israel’s air defenses while at the same time condemning Iran and imposing economic sanctions. Their tacit involvement is green-lighting more Israeli belligerence and violation of international laws which is corroding the entire fabric of global security.
Given the appalling culpability of the Western powers in fueling these explosive conflicts, it is the height of duplicity for Macron to turn around and make his pompous proposal for a truce during the Summer Games being held in Paris from July 26 to August 11.
The real concern for Macron is to showcase France in all its presumed greatness in a worldwide spectacle.
The narcissistic Macron is driven by self-aggrandizing ambition and delusions of grandeur as a world statesman and the president who restored France’s international prestige. It is this same megalomania that drives his recent calls for greater NATO involvement in the proxy war in Ukraine. The former Rothschild banker and now Napoleon wannabe is a charlatan who is completely bereft of any principles.
Significantly, the opening ceremony for the Summer Games is planned to take place along the Seine River in the form of an extravagant regatta. This arrangement breaks with the modern tradition of all Olympics being opened in the main stadium that hosts the sporting events. The Stade de France is located outside the French capital. One gets the distinct impression that Macron wants the grand opening to be televised in the center of Paris simply for the purpose of showing off the capital and its renowned cultural landmarks.
For Macron, the quadrennial games are first and foremost all about displaying France in the best possible light to the world for political and commercial exhibition. The games themselves are a vehicle for his vainglorious ambitions.
The truth is the Olympic Games and other international sporting events have long been hijacked by Western politics for their imperialist agenda.
When the U.S. and its NATO allies were waging illegal wars in countless countries in Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, there were never calls for an Olympic Truce. There were never calls for banning the U.S. and its allies from participating in games even though there were substantial grounds for such calls.
Russian athletes have for several years now been banned from sporting events based solely on trumped-up claims about drug abuse and other alleged infringements. As our columnist Declan Hayes has pointed out in several articles, Russia’s figure-skating champion Kamila Valieva and its other world-class athletes have been subjected to relentless Western efforts to destroy their reputations and participation in “NATO sporting circuses”.
Shamefully, the Western powers and their toxic mass media have done everything to ensure that politics are above sports. Sporting events have become just another adjunct of Western propaganda.
If Macron had any genuine motive for international peace, he would be calling for an end to arming the NeoNazi regime in Ukraine and advocating a credible diplomatic engagement with Russia.
If Macron earnestly wanted the Olympic Games to serve as an overture for peace and humanity, he would be calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and full respect for Palestinian national and human rights.
The Western-controlled International Olympic Committee has banned Russian athletes from participating in the games in Paris under their national flag. Their “concession” is that 40 Russian sportspeople may take part as long as they do so under a “neutral flag” and that they do not display any signs of supporting Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine. Why were such strictures not imposed on Americans or Britons during their criminal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Russia is banned yet Israel is allowed to send a full team in national colors while it conducts the worst genocide in modern times. The Western hypocrisy here is absolutely revolting and self-indicting.
Like a Greek tragedy, the rampant cynicism and abuse by Western powers are destroying the Olympic Games, the very event that they are trying to monopolize for their nauseating virtue signaling.
In a crowded Western field competing for the dubious title, Macron takes gold for cynicism.
A few weeks ago some athletes were calling for Israel to be banned but naturally that news didn’t last long. I don’t follow sports anymore but I know people who do who don’t follow politics so they are quite naive, but they’re smart enough to wonder why if Russia isn’t there why is Israel? I couldn’t get through to them the hypocrisy and double-standards of our politicians but now that may get through to them through sport, which should be above teaching anybody about politics but childish people always do childish things.
If you see the word “western”, they mean the White Man, but in an essay pretending to be impartial they dare not put simply that they have a Kill Whitey stance. Australia and NZ are called western, because they are White countries, while the compass points completely contradict the idea that thy are in the west. About the Olympics, the USA boycotted Moscow in 1980, and in 2024 Russia is banned, so the Olympic ideal has no existence, because of the warmongers
Lol..
‘sports’…yes the ‘sports’ must go on…(Doped up PED imbeciles)…
the current crop of hollow men having lost the calculating cunning of their forbears are beginning to look like some sort of parody act… unable to piece together and usefully parse the Supreme Evils handed them on a silver platter… by the hunch backed ghouls in wheel chairs that preceded them..
They have ended up like some porky middle aged Abba tribute band with the obligatory ‘semitic’ manager…
playing a bar-mitzvah… as the place burns down..
About time that phoney french faggot got a smack in his smug mug…
or, at the very least, a good spanking off his granny-tranny “wife” 😂
OK….what is missing from this article??…
It is the FACT that Macron is a Marrano who used to work for a Rothschild bank.
Until such time BOTH the MSM AND THE ALTERNATIVE MEDIA ARE PREPARED TO MENTION THIS FACT…..things are going nowhere.
Of course previous French leaders have also been CRYPTO JEWS…..this cannot be a cohencidence!!…..
Macron is of course hedged in as to what he can do….
Even Madame Le Pen MAY be comprised??.
On top of this is the question about Freemasonry….as strong in France as it is in Britain.
Hang on a minute,
You’re trying to tell me people still watch & show interest in this garbage,
Just a thought,
Why Don’t Russia/China et’al organise & run their own counter comp ?
& officially ‘ban’ all the protagonists who ridicule them ?
Olympic committee, FIFA, F1, etc etc ALL nothing more than money making scams, ‘They’ don;t een try & hide it any more.
I think within twenty years the global majority of BRICS and associated nations will form new institutions similar to those institutions which were once impartial but have since been captured politically as happens in all totalitarian states, and the west is becoming totalitarian. Once-neutral but now captured institutions include the Olympics, the Nobel Prize, the Oscars, Man of the Year, even the Eurovision Song ffs.
They’d have to call their international athletics competition something other than Olympics but it’s clear that’s what it means. Athletes are competitive and those at the top love to pit themselves against the world’s best, whatever flag they wear. And only real women would be able to compete against women. Our athletes would have to raise the funds to compete because our childish politicians wouldn’t fund them but they’ll soon be irrelevant anyway. Such institutions seem a natural progression once others like banking and international justice have been established. The west is done now and good riddance to it.
@ Peter Petherington … “granny-tranny” LOLOL
How that vile sawed-off dumpster of treachery, treason, and simian semen hasn’t been strangled to death with his own intestines yet is beyond me. But I suppose I could say the same thing about all the cartel political “leaders” in the rapidly-decaying West.
Though I was a rather accomplished athlete for many years, I couldn’t give a standing piss about the Chimplympics. Well, the gymnastics is rather impressive (I still won’t watch now though), and I did have a former squeeze who was a gymnast and performed some of her best routines in bed….and in the kitchen…and the shower…and the hood of the car in an airport parking lot….and a balcony in the French Quarter…and against the landing gear of one of Elvis’ planes in the parking lot at Graceland…and… Gold Medal winner, her…or at least a strong Silver…
“Tranny Sport” –a joke from IKEA (put it together yourself)