Firefighters, get ready! France is burning down!

ER Editor: This is about France burning in a metaphorical sense as well as literal.

For literal fires around Europe, readers may be interested in this piece from The Guardian —

Europe scorched by wildfires – pictures from space

We had a summer barbecue with some open-minded, educated French people yesterday. The style of thinking below pretty much mirrors where they, too, are at. It’s a neat summary.

************

Firefighters, get ready! France is burning down!

XAVIER AZALBERT for FRANCE SOIR

Red alert! This editorial opens with the tragedy that ravaged the Aude region, where a fire of apocalyptic violence devastated the towns of Ribaute and Tournissan, leaving behind charred landscapes and broken lives. But make no mistake: this is not just a local news item. Nor are the high temperatures affecting the country.

Through this conflagration, I denounce the widespread burning of France as a whole—a country consumed not only by physical flames, but by institutional, moral, ideological, and spiritual destruction orchestrated with great precision. Recent polls confirm this analysis, revealing an unprecedented level of distrust among the French toward their leaders and the European Union. Macron has even managed to become the leader with the highest disapproval rating: 75% of those polled disapprove of him.

World leader’s disapproval rating:

🇫🇷 Emmanuel Macron: 75%
🇨🇿 Petr Fiala: 73%
🇬🇧 Keir Starmer: 65%
🇯🇵 Shigeru Ishiba: 62%
🇪🇸 Pedro Sánchez: 61%
🇿🇦 Cyril Ramaphosa: 60%
🇩🇪 Friedrich Merz: 58%
🇳🇴 Jonas Gahr Støre: 58%
🇧🇷 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: 57%
🇸🇪 Ulf Kristersson: 56%
🇦🇹…

— World of Statistics (@stats_feed) August 16, 2025

Here we go again!

Remember the fire in La Teste-de-Buch, Gironde, from July 12 to 29, 2022. Described at the time as a serious ecological disaster, it destroyed 14,000 hectares of pine trees. Recognized as being of criminal origin, it coincided with the location where the municipality wanted to install fields of photovoltaic panels, a project blocked by opposition from residents and local associations. After the fire, a private company reportedly obtained authorization to install these panels, in a context that raises questions about the underlying motivations.

In 2025, the fire in the Aude region, in Ribaute and Tournissan, seems to be following a similar pattern. It struck where a photovoltaic park project was planned, despite opposition from residents and environmentalists. In November 2024, the National Council for Nature Conservation issued an unfavorable opinion on the exemption required to affect protected species. In January 2025, the residents of Ribaute and Tournissan, consulted by their mayors, voted 97% against the project. Although the criminal origin of the fire has not yet been confirmed, investigators are favoring this hypothesis due to numerous clues.

France faces major challenges

Beyond the fires, other challenges are affecting the country. Electricity prices are rising sharply, partly due to decisions concerning France’s nuclear power plants, which have been sold to foreign interests under the impetus of European policies. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has signed agreements with the United States, notably on customs duties and arms deliveries to Ukraine, without consulting the European Parliament. These decisions, criticized by some, such as Viktor Orbán, raise questions about transparency and sovereignty.

The fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, the cause of which remains under debate, adds to this sense of loss. In ten years, under Macron’s leadership—first as Minister of Economy (2014–2016) and then as president (since 2017)—France has been methodically reduced to ashes. Public services dismantled, labor laws destroyed, social protections gutted, freedom of expression muzzled, national solidarity shattered, national interests sold off: everything that made France strong, soulful, and great has been sacrificed on the altar of a radically anti-French policy, executed with relentless coldness.

Complicit opposition and economic quasi-genocide

This disaster would not have been possible without the complicity of false opposition parties. Opposition parties such as La France Insoumise and the National Rally have failed to unite behind an effective alternative. Despite questions about the 2017 and 2022 elections, they did not support impeachment initiatives or motions of censure, which some saw as symbolic gestures. This situation fuels the frustration of citizens, who want profound change, as polls show.

Worse still, another fire is ravaging rural France: the virtual genocide of its cattle herd, orchestrated to impose the hegemony of MERCOSUR, the free trade agreement between the EU and South American countries. This agreement allows the importation of agricultural products using substances banned in Europe, putting French farmers, who are subject to strict standards, in a difficult position. This decision, taken without consulting citizens, threatens a key sector of the French economy and culture: producing healthy and environmentally friendly food.

A call to action for the future

French people, we are at a crucial moment. A disconnected elite—captive politicians, servile senior civil servants, complicit CEOs—is zealously applying Macron’s mantra: “destroy everything to rebuild better,” but only for their own exclusive benefit. The decisions taken by certain leaders, in Paris and Brussels, have profound consequences on our daily lives. Price increases, loss of economic sovereignty, and growing restrictions are causing legitimate concern. This caste, through the chaos it orchestrates, is leading us straight toward economic, intellectual, moral, and physical death. Police, judicial, and media repression, wielding the accusation of “conspiracy theory” as a weapon, muzzles all resistance, turning citizens into powerless spectators of their own downfall.

October 1, 2025, will mark the launch of the process toward the digital euro, as decided by the European Central Bank. This could further limit our freedoms, with the tracking of purchases and a reduction in the use of cash. Some French officials support this project, raising questions about their commitment to citizens.

Faced with this institutional desire to destroy France, we, as citizens, must take action. Peacefully, but with unwavering determination, as I have advocated in my previous editorials: “But what is the police doing?” One of my upcoming summer editorials will explore the implications of the digital euro and the choices that led to this situation.

French people, time is running out. If we do not stand up, united, against this parasitic caste that is murdering France’s cultural exception, its prestige, its aura, and its greatness, we will perish in the flames of an earthly hell. Wake up, organize, act, or France will soon be nothing more than a charred memory!

Source

************

Published to The Liberty Beacon from EuropeReloaded.com

••••

The Liberty Beacon Project is now expanding at a near exponential rate, and for this we are grateful and excited! But we must also be practical. For 7 years we have not asked for any donations, and have built this project with our own funds as we grew. We are now experiencing ever increasing growing pains due to the large number of websites and projects we represent. So we have just installed donation buttons on our websites and ask that you consider this when you visit them. Nothing is too small. We thank you for all your support and your considerations … (TLB)

••••

Comment Policy: As a privately owned web site, we reserve the right to remove comments that contain spam, advertising, vulgarity, threats of violence, racism, or personal/abusive attacks on other users. This also applies to trolling, the use of more than one alias, or just intentional mischief. Enforcement of this policy is at the discretion of this websites administrators. Repeat offenders may be blocked or permanently banned without prior warning.

••••

Disclaimer: TLB websites contain copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available to our readers under the provisions of “fair use” in an effort to advance a better understanding of political, health, economic and social issues. The material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving it for research and educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes other than “fair use” you must request permission from the copyright owner.

••••

Disclaimer: The information and opinions shared are for informational purposes only including, but not limited to, text, graphics, images and other material are not intended as medical advice or instruction. Nothing mentioned is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.