FRANCE - Macron announces the "end of abundance and sacrifices must be made for freedom"

Parroting the U.K. and Canada as they shift the blame for their own agenda carnage.

We see you! And your people will decide! Your time is over.

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Blue eyes 🌎 of Emmanuelle Macron turned sky dark 🌑

Newly pessimistic Macron presents hat-trick of doom | Le Monde |

On the spectrum of presidential transformations, this one appears to be fundamental. A few months ago, French President Emmanuel Macron defined himself as a "blue-eyed optimist." He was the confident leader able to go on television to talk about looking forward to the "day after" the Covid-19 pandemic, at a time when sufferers were just starting to flood into the hospitals. In his eyes, every crisis came with a silver lining. This is a mindset that time and a global situation marked by the war in Ukraine seem to have shelved.

The president opened the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, August 24, with a particularly somber statement. In a 12-minute speech broadcast live on 24-hour news channels from the Elysée meeting room (a rare occurrence) he spoke of a "great upheaval" with a historic trifecta - "the end of abundance, the end of recklessness, the end of taking things for granted." A gloomy prospect, with no signs of blue sky or clouds with silver linings anywhere.