Jerome Riviere
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60 appearances
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1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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It's absolutely crazy.
Prime Minister Orban launched Je suis Marine, yes.
I don't understand sometimes how some of the French people react. It is true that he has some appeal. His main political agenda is to talk to the newly French, to the Muslim migrants. And he's advocating the fact that Islam should have a bigger place inside France. So there are quite a few people that come from Muslim countries that have immigrated into France.
So he's making a strong point on that subject. What can I tell you? That's democracy. And, you know, I will fight him politically, but this is the choice of the people. If some people want to vote for him, I will tell them why it's a wrong idea. But, you know, it's a democratic expression.
He's very daring and indeed he pushes things, but the attention that he gets is diminishing. Right now he's not at all in the run for the presidential election. Marine Le Pen is a good 15 points ahead. of the next candidate. And the next candidate, you have quite a few of them that could be coming from Macron's party or Macron's minority. They are far away.
And then Mélenchon comes in third place, but he's quite far away.
Oh, yeah. No, it has been talked for me. You know, we French, we love to change our constitution, right? We have had five so far. We began in 1789, so a little after you, but we have had five so far. The one that we have right now, our constitution, the fifth, was established by General de Gaulle in 1958. So there are indeed a lot of voices saying that it should change. It was established
with General de Gaulle in mind, who was quite a strong personality at a time that was different. We don't act with amendments. We do drastic things. That's why we had a revolution. So that's why it's sometimes worrisome to see that we are in a dead end because of the reaction that the French people can have sometimes.
Yeah, but it's a war that the nationalists have lost, say, the left, all of the left, and the extreme left is trying to impose the idea that France began in 1789, that in fact before the monarchies, 1,500 years before, do not count, that they are bad and that... We enlightened the world, but we enlightened ourselves in 1789, which I think is very wrong.
And I think this is one of the cultural wars that we have to win. France did not begin in 1789. France began way before. We have so many things that did matter that created this civilization. So this is why you will see all people that bear left ideologically, will always bring back 1789 because to them it is the beginning of the new era. The French Revolution was not that great.
And we need also a massive genocide. You have to know that in the western part of France, in a place called Vendée, which is a little south of Otagne, in Parliament, the member of Parliament at that time said to General Hoche, who's in charge of repression, Go in there, go in villages, kill everyone, kill everyone, children and women included. We want to get rid of them.
So it was debated in a parliament in France during the revolution. So there are many things that we should not hold that great about the French Revolution.
And they put them on boats and they would bomb the boats so that people would drown because they didn't know how to swim. A lot of atrocities were done during the war, during that revolutionary war. The great thing for France is that we were extremely populated. You had a lot of French citizens. Basically, the population of France equaled the rest of Europe.
That was why Napoleon was a very good strategic guy. But he also had the manpower, if I may say so, because the population of France was so numerous that we were able to sustain long wars with the rest of Europe, against the rest of Europe.
Those were local battlefields, so it was a lot of people, but mainly it was soldiers dying on shields. Yeah, soldiers.
Nobody understands it. It's a huge shock. I mean, I think they did believe for a while that President Trump would not do that. They have been living in a dream world. Can you imagine for the past 50 years? NATO, mainly the US, has been paying for the European defense. With Marine Le Pen, we have been advocating the fact that we need to own our own defense.
When President Sarkozy brought France back into... Because in NATO, you have the political NATO and you have the military integrated command. And France was not part of the military integrated command. We were part of the political organization, but we were doing what we wanted to do. on our own regarding military operations. Sarkozy brought us back into that. We are totally against it.
A nation should be independent. You have allies, you have an organization in which you don't depend on another country. So Europe has been living a freebie. It's like the US paying and therefore it's easier to spend money on other things. I was expecting it, and all the nationalists are expecting that at one point this would happen. It's brutal. It's going to be difficult.
But I think that we need to end globalization. Again, I think globalization is something that has made every people in every nation suffer a lot. So it will bring an end to this type of organized trade.
basically that's mainly where I will post and comment and are you going to be back politically active should we anticipate seeing you speaking publicly I really don't know right now I'm just enjoying taking a little break from politics in France and Europe because it's a little crazy and I don't feel like many things can be achieved right now with politics interesting well thank you for joining us appreciate it very much thank you for having me I appreciate it thank you
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