Considerations On Current Strategy Of French Government – Analysis
By Giancarlo Elia Valori*
1) France effectively cooperated with the Bashar el Assad’ Syria and the Russian Aerospace Forces in the war against Daesh/Isis. President Hollande sent the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. This happened while France was also operating in the US-led operation Inherent Resolve.
2) Following this French strategic position, the US pressure was so strong that President Hollande slowly and silently (but the pro-Russian statement had been public) abandoned the alliance with the Russian forces stationed in Syria.
3) Despite the flaws and shortcomings recorded in recent times, from the Bataclan attack to the Nice tragedy, the French intelligence services do mistakes especially because they are subjected to opposing political tensions: an all-out fight against the jihad urged by the public and a softer approach followed by the government aiming at “inclusion” and at a reduction of propaganda relating to the jihad danger. This second course of action is the one favoured by the United States, which have discovered the EU destabilization potential inherent in the jihad.
4) There is another factor to be taken into account, namely the Gaullist-style French opposition to the TTIP. Hence there is the real danger that, ranging from Saudi Arabia, which is a US ally, to Jordan and Turkey before the very recent coup-countercoup, there are Arab countries funding the jihad in France, also with a view to geopolitically “softening” the French government.
5) With specific reference to Turkey, there are reasonable grounds to believe that the network of Fathiullah Gulen – who is accused by President Erdogan of being the instigator of the very recent coup – is behind most of the network funding Hillary Clinton. Gokhan Ozkok was the vice-President of PAC, the organization raising funds for Clinton’s candidates. Some US sources maintain that Ozkok and others belonging to Gulen’s movement, enrolled the Podesta Group to lobby the Congress.
6) The Kemalists still operating in Turkey and abroad, strengthened by the recent evaluation of the National Security Council, think that Gulen is a fake liberal Islamist who wants to turn Turkey into a Sunni theocracy. On the other hand, since its creation in 2001, the AKP has always had problems with its Saudi, radical Islamist and totalitarian wing – and this happened when Erdogan and Gulen got on well together and founded the Party which is currently in power in Turkey.
7) France is also a jihad target because it is the second concussive force after the United States in the operation Inherent Resolve in Syria against ISIS. In sub-Saharan Africa, France has 3,000 troops serving in the Operation Barkhane, which is designed to fight against Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and the other jihadist groups. Furthermore France hosts the largest Islamic community in Europe, as well as the largest Islamic community of second-generation French citizens. As many as 600 French citizens have reached the ISIS territories and the same holds true for the French-speaking Tunisians and Moroccans.
8) It is also worth recalling that the French government has only one obsession, namely the next presidential election scheduled for 2017. With the rating of current President François Hollande plummeting in the polls and the danger of a Front National victory, the jihad operating in France can have two unintentional cover factors: the inner race within the State administration for political repositioning and the future likely victory of Marine Le Pen in the next election. In this no man’s land a “window of opportunity” for the jihad emerges. It is also worth noting that the French intelligence services have recently been “purged” of the old and experienced analysts and operatives so as to make way for large groups of intellectuels, who have no intelligence experience but, on the other hand, have the same integrationist ideology, which leads directly to “submission” – just to use the title of the successful novel by Michel Houellebecq. It is the first time that leftist analysts guide and direct the French global strategy.
9) Al Qaeda’s magazine Inspire has thoroughly analyzed the heinous attack perpetrated in Nice. This analysis is important to understand the jihad current logic. The issue lies in “instilling fear throughout France” and, by extension, across Europe. Fear blocks any reaction and places the hit country into a state of inferiority – and this is precisely the role played by the “lone wolves” (Inghimaasi in Arabic) in the jihad, that “must be creative in inventing means to intimidate the West without using the traditional jihad means”, which can be traced by the police forces and the intelligence services. As stated by the magazine, these traditional means will be used at a later stage, once the lone wolves’ jihad has sufficiently intimidated the European countries and radicalized the local Islamic communities.
10) Bouhlel, the terrorist driving the truck in the Nice attack (referred to in the magazine as Al Huwaji) did what he had to do: he fully exploited the surprise attack effect and chose a target maximizing the number of French victims. He used an improper weapon, namely a truck, which was irrelevant to the Nice police and security forces. The global strategy of the jihadist terrorism has three objectives, currently in France but also in the European Union in the future: to hegemonize not the more or less “democratic” Imams chosen by the moderate Arab countries, but the immigrant or second- generation masses. The jihad will use these communities as bases for an Islamic State in France or in some other European countries and will later fight against the rest of the people manu militari – as now happens in Syria and Iraq – but not with the jihad, which is a strategy for preparing and opening hostilities, but with a conventional war, albeit ferocious. The issue that the global jihad is studying aims at knowing when the Muslim masses will be so large and radicalized to start the second phase, the one following the “lone wolves” phase.
11) The European framework is optimal for Islam. Countries which understand nothing about this phenomenon – except for some sort of propaganda – are obsessed with pacifism and the integration myth, a panacea for all ills, and are then subjected to the evident pressure of investors similar to Croesus (who, in fact, came from the Middle East) that also fund the jihad.
12) Qatar invested 100 million euro for the rehabilitation of the banlieues and it is easy to imagine what kind of political indoctrination will follow this “gift.” Obviously, with their stupid naivety, politicians hope this will favour the integration and rehabilitation of these peripheral areas, to which the French government only pays lip service. Qatar also bought shareholdings in companies such as Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH), Total and the media group Lagardère. Through the investment in LVMH, Qatar has a direct stake and interest in the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), which manufactures the Airbus.
13) Furthermore Qatar wants to get its hands on the 7.5% EADS shareholding owned by the German car manufacturer Daimler. Outside of France, Qatar has a small stake in the Royal Dutch Shell, in the London department store Harrod’s and in the other British “global chain store” Sainsbury. Since 2010 Qatar has owned Miramax, the US film production company. Hence, on the one hand, there is the Islamic financial command and control over Europe and much of the United States and, on the other, there is the preparation of the next mass guerrilla warfare.
About the author:
*Professor Giancarlo Elia Valori is an eminent Italian economist and businessman. He holds prestigious academic distinctions and national orders. Mr Valori has lectured on international affairs and economics at the world’s leading universities such as Peking University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Yeshiva University in New York. He currently chairs “La Centrale Finanziaria Generale Spa”, he is also the honorary president of Huawei Italy, economic adviser to the Chinese giant HNA Group and Khashoggi Holding’s advisor. In 1992 he was appointed Officier de la Légion d’Honneur de la République Francaise, with this motivation: “A man who can see across borders to understand the world” and in 2002 he received the title of “Honorable” of the Académie des Sciences de l’Institut de France.
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This article was published by Modern Diplomacy
