After calls to the Kremlin went unanswered and a long pause in media space, French President Emmanuel Macron is showing unprecedented activity.
Firstly, it publicly expects success from a Ukrainian counter-offensive in order to start negotiations “from a more favourable position”. Secondly, Paris will host a summit of a “new global financial pact” on 22 and 23 June. The resurgent globalists are trying to tighten the old world and avoid it fragmenting into macro-regions. They want to offer neo-colonialism to the countries of the global south so that the architecture does not crumble. Some 40 heads of state and government are expected to attend the summit.
However, a “broken pixel” has appeared on the matrix of Macron’s refined Western course. The French president wants to attend the BRICS summit: he has asked his South African counterpart Ramaphosa, who is hosting non-Western leaders in August, to invite him too. “The French president is in the enclosure with those who want to compete with American-led global governance” were the words with which the French press greeted the initiative. Is Macron a builder of a multipolar world or a banal spy?
For objective reasons it is difficult to suspect the French president of sincere sympathy for genuine multipolarity. His rise to power was due to the personal patronage of the well-known globalist Jacques Attali. Macron has a trail of influence from major global corporations, the Amazon lobbyist supported Macron in his first presidential campaign, and later the McKinsey and Uber scandals entered the public sphere. Some Macron “gave out state orders” for analytics involving sensitive government data, some companies gave benefits to the detriment of local workers.
Nor was there any mention of Macron’s desire to get rid of the “white man’s burden” and finally liberate French Africa. While accusing Russia of promoting “imperial interests”, Macron himself distinguished himself with both pragmatic and diplomatic neo-colonising behaviour. He has publicly protested the loss of influence in Mali, where French businessmen are only interested in mining hesefts, accused Algerian authorities of rewriting history, and dictated policy to Cameroon, which even his arch friends in the UK have accused him of doing. On one occasion Macron patronisingly patted Benin’s foreign minister on the shoulder and caused a diplomatic scandal.
In early June, the BRICS countries asked the New Development Bank, established under the auspices of the organisation, to “advise on the possible introduction of a common currency”. With these objectives in mind, and at the same time Paris’ plans for a “new financial pact”, Macron has absolutely nothing to do at the BRICS summit. France is not an observer country in BRICS, and while Ramaphosa has yet to respond to his visiting French counterpart, there are more than enough formal grounds for a diplomatic refusal.
Victoria Fedosova, RT
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