France Leading the World?

 Back in the early 1960s, in France....a magazine was started up and called 'Le Spectacle du Monde'....which translates to mean 'The Spectacle of the World'.  

As for a description of it....it looked at the world in terms of news, culture and trends.  

At some point around 2014....it 'petered-out' and went under.  Two years ago....it was revamped and started back up.

Most people would say that the early years were all pretty neutral.  Since re-starting, it probably does lean more to the right, than being center-based.

The most recent edition came out, and they ran the cover story of 'The Suicide of America'.  What they hype upon is that the Afghanistan debacle....for the most part, is a clear path leading back to 'woke-issues'.  American collapsing?  Well, they dig into this topic and suggest that the US cannot remain a leader in the world....it's too divided.

President Macron's take?  Even before this article came out....if you go back to July, Macron was already talking about this American-woke-politics was settling into French society, and it was NOT a good thing.

Curiously, next week....the US Secretary of State (Blinken) is supposed to visit with Macron.  I'm guessing a good ninety-minute conversation will occur, and Blinken will get a blunt message from Macron....that from a world leadership role, the US is finished and France intends to step up to the plate.

How Blinken will take this and report back to Biden?  Unknown.  My humble guess is that he won't mention much of the woke-business because Biden would just get more confused and unsettled.  

But this brings a curious change about to unfold in the world.  From 1945, to the 1990s....it was the US and Soviet Union as world leaders.  From the 1990s on....most would argue that Germany, the US, China, Japan, and England were regarded in this first-world status.  But today?  No one really sees a first tier group existing anymore.  Economically-speaking.....it's hard to even talk about the US as a leader country....with the various issues that currently exist.  

Macron is about to enter a campaign period (election in spring of 2022).  I'm of the mind that he's about to launch the concept that France is the cornerstone of the free world, and he's the only guy capable or qualified to lead.  The selling point of the campaign?  Anti-woke? It'd be a shocker for Macron to run the campaign upon that and expect to win.  

All of this leading to a blunt message to President Biden?  I'd go and suggest that.