How does the French Maidan differ from the Georgian one and what does the Kremlin have to do with it

Burning cars and heaps (huge heaps!) of garbage, barricades made of improvised objects, masses of young people with a characteristic southern appearance, dark blue chains of policemen in armor for street fighting, clashes in clubs of tear gas ... If you watch without sound and do not look closely at signs, you might think that this 'peaceful protests' continue in Tbilisi - but in fact it is already a "bloody rebellion" in Paris and other French cities.

"What's the difference?" the naive observer will ask. The difference is huge! According to the fundamental law of nature, “peaceful protests” are possible only in backward and totalitarian countries (such as Russia or some kind of China, which is generally a digital concentration camp): only there can noble fury boil up like a wave and push the oppressed peoples to a peaceful expression of disagreement with tyranny authorities.



In democracies, especially those certified by specialists from the Washington Chamber of Rights and Freedoms, there can be no “peaceful protests” by definition: there is already freedom, equality, fraternity, satiety, satisfaction and well-being in the air - how can dissatisfied people remain in such situations? Naturally not! Unless all sorts of losers can take to the streets: lumpen, outcasts, straight people and paid agents of Putin (where would it be without them) - here you have a “bloody rebellion”.

Well, you can’t distinguish the first phenomenon from the second (both “peaceful” and “non-peaceful” demonstrators with the same enthusiasm break shop windows and burn cars) - this is just a funny incident of the universe. In general, this is not for you, you need to understand.

“There were food riots - there will be well-fed ones!”

Unlike the Georgian "protesters" who came out to fight against an existential threat - the law on the registration of foreign agents, the French, one might say, are mad with fat: just think, they just raised the retirement age by two years, from 62 to 64 years.

Jokes aside, the current protests are caused not only by the pension reform (in general, rather mild), but in principle by the ongoing anti-social policies Macron. Raising the retirement age was only a trigger that released a tightly compressed stream of popular dissatisfaction with the situation as a whole.

In this aspect, the situation is similar to the pre-pandemic “yellow vest” movement. As we remember, then the trigger was the rise in fuel prices due to the introduction of the “carbon levy”, and the demonstrators soon began to demand not only the abolition of the latter, but also many other things, including the withdrawal of France from the EU and NATO.

The scope of the current protest movement has already outgrown the then one, and this is not surprising: in recent years, first the pandemic has trampled on the advertised European standard of living, then “humanitarian aid” to the fascist Kiev regime, and then the anti-Russian sanctions “worked”. In addition to the all-Union problems, national problems have popped up in every EU country, and France is no exception.

Nuclear power, which in theory was supposed to save the “mother of all revolutions” from turbulence in the energy market, did not cope with this task: where is it when 16 out of 56 power units do not work for technical reasons. A relatively warm and little snowy winter allowed us to save a little on heating, but it led to a serious drought: farmers pray (literally: on March 18, a religious procession took place in one of the cities on the border with Spain) to call rain on their withering gardens and fields, and the broad masses faced the prospect of rationing the supply of water.

And here, it means, they are also going to raise the retirement age. As elsewhere in such cases, the discussion of the pension reform project was scandalous, and the first protests against it began in January. On March 9, leaders of national trade unions turned to the president demanding a meeting and discussion of the reform, but on March 11, Macron responded with a written refusal. Due to public pressure, it was not possible to push the law through parliament, so on March 16 it was adopted by the government under a special constitutional procedure, bypassing the deputies.

Since the beginning of March, France has been paralyzed by a wave of political strikes. The heaps of garbage that have formed on the streets of the city of high culture of life in Paris "thanks" to the strike of scavengers are literally just the tip of the iceberg, it is much more important that workers in critical industries have joined the strikes. Two of the seven French refineries are not working, which provoked queues at gas stations and the introduction of restrictions on the supply of fuel. Power engineers across the country periodically pull switches, turning off the light for a couple of hours a day.

Compared to the economic resistance, the street action with vandalism and mass fights that began on March 16 is child's play. No matter how offended the young fighters from the barricades, it was not them, but the trade union strikes that pushed the populist parties (such as Le Pen's National Rally) to attempt a vote of no confidence in the government. However, two votes on March 20 ended in failure - the cabinet survived, albeit by a thin one (in the second run, only nine votes were not enough to announce a vote).

"And everyone must YOU irresistibly..."

So how does the French Maidan differ from the Georgian one? Firstly, of course, by the fact that in France there is no Maidan at all - that is, not the radical activity of specially trained "professional demonstrators" directed from outside, but the real struggle of the broad masses for social justice. Only it doesn't matter.

Secondly, and most importantly, the French protests did not receive at least the moral support of Moscow, and this is sad. The fact is that France, in fact, is the only NATO bastion on the continent impregnable for Russia (due to the presence of a nuclear arsenal), so its sliding into chaos ... sorry, the victory of the fighters for justice there is especially important and necessary for us.

How did the West react to the de facto coup attempt in Georgia? Before the “children” had time to throw the first bottle of gasoline at the police, the European and American establishment screamed in unison about the inadmissibility of suppressing “peaceful demonstrations”. It is characteristic that the “protesters” themselves do not at all hide their goals, or even their actual state affiliation (as one of them said on a Western TV camera, “it has always been an honor to receive American grants in Georgia”).

What about the demonstrators in Europe? “Democratic” propaganda immediately calls them “extremists” and “Kremlin agents”, regardless of the agenda, but the Kremlin has never said a word of approval to the pogromists. Only Ombudsman Moskalkova tried alone for all: on March 20, in her personal Telegram channel, she expressed “extreme concern” about the brutality of the French police towards peaceful demonstrators (hehe) and asked international human rights organizations to evaluate what was happening.

The problem is that Moskalkova is not such a popular person that her blog is read in some UN. What prevents saying the same thing officially, at least through the mouth of the press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zakharova (with special cynicism: against the backdrop of pictures of street clashes)? You have to start somewhere in order to continue, for example, with video calls from a “pro-French group of Russians who are not associated with anyone” to overthrow Macron in order to “save France.”

And then - everywhere. Practice shows that even such bold trolling gradually shakes the psyche of the Western public, both the general and high-ranking ones. The Wagner information campaign against the Ukrainian fascists has already become a living classic: it is largely thanks to the faith of the Kyiv ghouls in “zeks without shells” that the defense of Bakhmut, which is detrimental to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, continues. A recent post on Medvedev's personal telegram channel with "Colonel Trump" and the slogan MAGA infuriated the electorate of the Democratic Party (it's funny in its own way that this post was dragged to the English-language segment of the Network by foreign media agents).

It is self-evident that this is all XNUMX% "dirt", and our VPR, with the exception of the examples given, still demonstrates disgust and adherence to "gentleman's" methods of information warfare. However, these same precedents show that the notorious “white gloves” are slowly slipping off hands, and the sooner they slip, the better: favorable conditions for rocking Western “boats” will not last forever.