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Join on Telegram Before boarding his presidential aircraft earlier this week for a visit to Gabon, Angola, the Congo, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Macron addressed Morocco and Algeria in a speech at the Elysees Palace. In his speech, he almost admitted having no involvement nor power over the accusations against Morocco for bribing some members of the European Parliament, as well as the allegations of wiretapping Macron.
That gave the impression that the votes against Morocco in the European Parliament were not led by parliamentarians from Macron’s political party.
Internal Divisions in France’s Deep State
And when Macron claimed that there are quarters in France who want to sour relations with Morocco, he is being honest about this at least because the deep state in France does not act as one man. Nowadays, there is an open civil war amid the corridors of the French deep state, some of whose offensive odors have gone public, after Le Monde published an investigation into the Foreign Intelligence Agency and it invests its money through civilian facades.
In the Deep France, there are three poles that share influence. The first pole includes the Elysee Palace, the Quai d’Orsay, and the majority of the media spectrum that benefits from billions of euros annually as subsidy. The second pole is represented by the General Directorate for External Security (DGSE), the country’s foreign intelligence agency, and the third pole involves the military-industrial complex, formed by the army and the owners of military industries companies.
Each of these poles defends its interests by fabricating diplomatic issues, such as the decision to exfiltrate a French-Algerian dissident from Tunisia, which was an issue of an internal intelligence conflict and had nothing to do with the dispute with Algeria.
Therefore, there may be a part of the French deep state that advocates positive relations with Morocco, but there is certainly another part that favors resorting to the old methods used by imperialist France with its colonies.
Macron’s visit to these African countries came precisely because they refused to vote in the United Nations General Assembly on a resolution calling on Russia to withdraw from Ukraine. This means that Macron’s visit is aimed at limiting the Russian presence in these countries as well as searching for new opportunities, especially as France is spectacularly losing influence in Africa as Germany becomes the first European exporter to the African continent.
Macron’s visit is also aimed at constricting the growing Moroccan influence within the continent, and today he is waging a full-fledged war against Morocco internally and externally. The recent prosecutions and court verdicts that affected Moroccan celebrities as well as the allegations rumouring the existence of a list of wanted Moroccan officials handed to France by Belgium were merely implicit messages to Moroccan officials. The goal is to make it abundantly clear that the sword of the French judiciary will spare no one.
For the DGSE, it is not permissible for Morocco to turn into Africa’s Turkey. Bernard Emie, the director of the French foreign intelligence agency, recently went as far to argue that Morocco’s path is very similar to that of Turkey, and that France cannot allow this to happen. The implication, of course, is that a diplomatically assertive and politically independent Morocco is a nightmare for France.
France Bears Responsibility for Western Sahara Dispute
For this reason, France has always fought Morocco through Algeria, as it was France’s machinations that made it possible for Spain to colonize the Sahara. One particular historical episode of France’s conniving was the Ifni War in October 1957 to June 1958, when France rushed at least 5000 troops to support the Spanish army against the Moroccan Liberation Army.
Most historical documents suggest that had France not intervened on Spain’s side, the Ifni War, which was initiated and fought by elements of nationalist Moroccan insurgents who wanted to liberate the Sahara from Spanish occupation, would have most likely ended with a Moroccan victory.
Today, Algeria is establishing the Algerian Agency for International Cooperation and injecting a billion dollars into it, which is ultimately a French project to suppress Morocco’s growing influence in the African continent.
France, therefore, tops the short list of countries that do want to see the Sahara dispute reach a lasting resolution. The reason is because it has historically manipulated — and continues to manipulate — the dispute for its own interests.
Should France unveil the documents and maps it possesses, not only will it have to recognize Morocco’s legitimate claims to the Western Sahara region, but it will also prove that Eastern Sahara is also historically Moroccan. As is well-documented, France severed Eastern Sahara from Morocco to the benefit of Algeria, believing that its colonization over that country would last forever.
France Is No Longer a Respected World Power
We can understand France’s dismay from the future and the sudden exposure of its disguised imperialist face. In 2030, France will most certainly not be among the world’s top ten powerful countries and will be overcome by Brazil and Indonesia. Today, France imports 29% of meat, 60% of fruits and 40% of vegetables.
After Indians and Afghans, French nationals ranked as the third largest migrant community in Canada in 2022. This is normal as the war in Ukraine costs France five million euros a day, which amounts to one and a half billion euros annually.
Already, some French politicians admit that the problem with France is that it changes its policies every five years. France, it could be argued, is now paying the very steep price of its dismissal of the opportunity to cement cooperation with Russia in 2002. Had France adhered to Putin’s proposal to forge a strong partnership between Moscow and Paris, they could have created a harmonious alliance that could stand its ground against China and America.
Unfortunately for France, Putin turned to China while European Union countries subsequently became vassals of the US. Now hostages of America’s hegemonic agenda, most EU countries have destroyed their own economies, sabotaged the future of their children, been stripped of any weapon they could use to defend themselves, and been conditioned to rely on America’s weapons and military might for their own security.
