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Nov. 13, 2018 - Steve Pieczenik
06:54
OPUS 98 French Hypocrisy
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Hi, I'm Dr.
Pchenik and I want to talk today about the French hypocrisy and cowardliness of Macron and France in general.
Let me be more specific.
President Trump went on Armistice Day on November 11th to basically pay tribute to the warriors who died in World War I. What he said, in effect, is that Macron, who's a manipulative little child, who I've complained about for the past couple of months, the son of professional people, he married somebody 20 years older.
He's totally a Peter Pan.
His rating is 10% unemployment and 20% approval.
Trump said, look, you're not worthy of being an ally to me.
And that's in effect what he said.
But let me be a little bit more specific about France.
Number one, Macron forgot that the World War I was initiated by the Germans and the French because of the death of the Archduke Ferdinand of Sarajevo.
It was a war that lasted from 1914 to 1918.
It was between the French, the Germans and the German allies and the French allies.
Over 70 million people were involved.
20 million men and women died in that war.
Ten million French, ten million Germans and their allies.
As a result of that war, which was supposed to be the war of all wars, we had the Treaty of Versailles, which was unfairly harsh on the Germans and demanded all kinds of reparations.
Well, just like the French, when they talk about patriotism and denying nationalism, what did they do in 1923?
Along with the other nefarious country called Belgium, thanks to King Leopold who went into Africa and cut off the hands of all the African people who had to work for him, Belgium and France attacked the Ruhr Valley in 1923 to get the coal mines and the companies that they felt were owed to them as a result of reparations of World War I. Now, I want to address a little bit to Mr.
Winston Churchill's grandson, who called our president pathetic.
I would like to remind you, Mr.
grandson, that your grandfather was in charge and responsible for the death of over 600,000 men and women and children in the Battle of Telepolo during World War I in 1916.
Half of that 600,000 were Turks, half of them were British and New Zealanders.
Thanks to your grandfather, he was not only able to kill these individuals, but when he was prime minister, he was diagnosed by Lord Moran as demented.
So let's not have any more words.
Let's go back to now World War II, where my father was in the French army.
And I had asked him when he was a captain, a medical doctor in the French army, what was the first and last order that you got when the Germans attacked the French in 1939?
There were 2.2 million French on the Maginot Line.
And there were 600,000 Germans that came right through the forest instead of Belgium.
And what he told me was there was only one order, and that was to retreat.
And that's what the French did in World War II. Under the great so-called General Foch, the French retreated, having had three to one...
It outnumbered the Germans and in fact for the next few years the French became one of the greatest collaborators of the Germans.
They don't want to talk about it but the records in Toulouse will show how many Frenchmen ended up to be collaborators.
As a matter of fact when I came back to France In the late 1940s, and I was about five or six years old, I remember many people's hair being cut off and understanding that these were collaborators, and I had to eat with German prisoners of war.
Now let's go further on to the German nationalism, which Macron forgets about.
Of course, France went into Vietnam through the 40s and 50s, and they were ruthless.
They killed thousands and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese.
It was so ruthless, they decided to bring in the Americans.
But thanks to General Eisenhower, who knew how ineffectual the French really were in combat, he refused to go into Vietnam.
Of course, who went in?
John F. Kennedy and LBJ. And they made sure that we lost over 250,000 men wounded, 50,000 killed.
But the most important part of that war was the battle in Cambodia when Pol Pot killed over 1.2 million of his own citizens and called the auto-genocide of Cambodia.
I was fortunate enough in 1988 and 1989 to be brought into the State Department to initiate, create, develop and strategize A plan where I would de-arm the Khmer Rouge without using force and then bring it into a nation state.
As a result of that, I was able to deal with Claude Martin of the French government and a very unusual individual, a senior official of the Vietnamese government, Lee Dap Tho, who was in charge of the Vietnam War.
And I asked him in 1989, as we were sitting in France, In Paris, I asked him, how would you characterize the Americans versus the French in the occupation of Vietnam?
He turned to me and he said, The French were ruthless.
They hated us.
We hated them.
The Americans, we knew you were there because you had to go there or you would go to prison.
And in that difference, I understood very quickly that the Vietnamese understood the difference between the Americans and the French.
But the French didn't stop in Vietnam.
They went into North Africa and killed 2 million Algerians.
They went into Morocco and killed Algerians.
They went into Tunisia.
And then of all places...
The French went into Rwanda under Bill Clinton, and Clinton knew this as well as Hillary, and they killed and machine-gunned innocent Tutsis for no reason whatsoever.
And who were their allies?
Of course, the Belge, and they've never said a word.
Let me quote to you a famous woman congressional representative from Montana named Janet Rankin.
In 1914 and 1940, 1960 and 1940, she was a congresswoman to our congress, the first woman from Montana.
And she said, the greatest contribution I ever made to World War I was not...
Was to vote against the war.
And then she said, someday we will have 50% of a Congress comprising of women.
And she was correct.
Thank you.
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