France awoke to scenes of widespread damage on Sunday after a day of riots and demonstrations, with shopfronts shattered, burnt out cars, charred bikes, and piles of glass and debris on the pavements of Paris.
Police arrested about 1,800 people on Saturday as some 550,000 demonstrators took to the streets for protests that were largely peaceful.
They were demonstrating against rising fuel prices, the cost of living and deteriorating public services, including schools.
Just a little looting etc…
@fancypants_s
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) October 18, 2026
Food for thought …
“Close your Borders and take control, before it is too late!” – President DONALD J. TRUMP https://t.co/6vXWkZwYVJ
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 18, 2026
Many in the comments are saying: “The French voted for this.”
Fine. Now ask yourself a better question.
Why is it the same story in every Western country at once? France, Germany, Sweden, the UK, Belgium, Canada. Different languages, different histories, different voters. Same outcome. Same open-border policies, sold in the same beautiful packaging: progress, inclusion, integration, “our values.”
When dozens of peoples who never coordinated end up with the exact same policy, it wasn’t the peoples who decided. It was the class that governs all of them. Same schools, same forums, same networks. For decades, they have systematically lied to Europeans about what was happening and what it would cost.
They tried it with you too, America. You came close. What saved you was your Constitution, and a handful of people like Elon Musk and the All-In crew who refused to stay quiet when silence would have been easier.
But don’t celebrate too early.
The West is not a country. It’s a civilization. Athens, Rome, Jerusalem, and every nation that inherited or built on what came out of them: Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, Israel, and allies like Japan who share its institutions and its fate.
If Europe falls, you don’t get to watch from across the ocean. You lose half your civilization, your oldest allies, the cradle of everything you believe in. Nobody on either side of the Atlantic has any interest in waking up to an Islamist Europe.
So understand that this fight has two levels.
There is the national fight. Every people has to win its own battle at home, at the ballot box, in its own institutions, under its own laws. No one can do it for us. You can’t vote in France, and we can’t vote in Ohio.
And there is the civilizational fight. The West is under attack on two fronts at once. From the inside, by a soft communism that hates its own history and wants to dissolve nations into a managed mass. From the outside, by Islamism, which sees our weakness and fills the vacuum. And the two have found each other: Islamo-leftism, where the far left defends the very ideology that would crush it first.
The national fights are the battles. The civilizational fight is the war.
And here’s what the other side exploits: your kindness.
Western civilization produced something rare in human history: a moral instinct to extend compassion to strangers. To the refugee, the outsider, the weakest. It’s one of the most beautiful things we ever built.
The globalist class turned it into a weapon against us.
Gad Saad has a name for this: suicidal empathy. Empathy that no longer asks who it protects and who pays the price. Empathy that cares more about how it looks than about what it causes. Empathy so detached from reason that it ends up sacrificing your own people, the girl attacked on her way home, the worker priced out of his neighborhood, the town that no longer recognizes itself, just to signal virtue toward strangers.
And every time you object, they don’t answer your argument. They question your heart. “Where is your compassion?” That’s the trap. They know a decent people will hesitate before being called cruel. They’ve been running that play for thirty years.
Now add the money.
A few left-wing billionaires understood long ago that you don’t need to win elections if you can shape the institutions around them. The Gates Foundation became one of the largest funders of the World Health Organization. George Soros’s Open Society Foundations have spent billions funding NGOs, advocacy groups and legal networks, with Europe as a major focus. Unelected, unaccountable, and extremely well organized.
And it’s not only private money. Brussels funds NGOs with taxpayers’ money, and those same NGOs then lobby Brussels for the policies it already wanted. A closed loop. Citizens pay for it. Nobody ever asked them.
This is the supranational machine: Brussels, the galaxy of NGOs orbiting it, the foundations feeding them, and the political class moving freely between all three. It answers to no voter in any country. It does enormous damage. And it can’t be voted out, because no one ever voted it in.
And if you want to know where its center of gravity is, look at Washington.
The Democratic Party is its political headquarters. Not because every Democrat is a globalist, but because that’s where the whole network converges: the big foundations, the NGO galaxy, the international organizations, the legacy media, the platforms. Same donors, same people rotating from one to the other, same worldview. Brussels is the branch office.
Covid showed it in real time.
Within weeks, almost the entire Western world adopted the same playbook. Same measures, same messaging, same “trust the science.” Anthony Fauci became the face of the official line far beyond America’s borders. The Gates Foundation, co-founder of the global vaccine alliances and one of the WHO’s largest funders, sat at the center of global health policy. And anyone who questioned the line was branded a spreader of misinformation.
The lab-leak hypothesis was a “conspiracy theory” right up until it became a respectable one. And in 2024, Mark Zuckerberg admitted in writing that senior Biden administration officials had repeatedly pressured Meta in 2021 to censor Covid content, including humor and satire.
Government, foundations, international organizations, platforms. All moving in the same direction, at the same time, and no voter ever consulted.
That’s the machine. Covid was the moment it stopped hiding.
That machine is what has to be taken apart. Defund the NGOs living off public money. Bring decisions back to elected national parliaments. Make every foundation that shapes public policy as transparent as a political party.
Compassion is a Western virtue. Letting it be used against us is not.
So let’s not fall into the trap.
The trap is Western nations turning on each other. Americans mocking Europeans, Europeans sneering at Americans, each country telling itself “they deserve what’s happening to them, they voted for it.”
I’m pro-border. I’m pro-nation. I believe every people has the right to decide who enters its home and to defend its own culture. That will never change.
But what we face today is not one nation attacking another. It’s an attack on the civilization all our nations belong to. And a civilization under attack cannot afford to let its members watch each other burn.
When you see France on fire, don’t say “they chose this.” Understand how it happened. Understand who did it. And understand that the same people are working on you.
The West has to stand together against this, fully, without ambiguity, and its peoples have to understand each other. National pride and civilizational solidarity are not opposites. They are the same fight at two scales.
A Frenchman voting to take back his borders and an American voting on November 3rd are on the same front, in the same war, for the same civilization.
We lose it separately, or we win it together.
— Brivael Le Pogam (@brivael) October 18, 2026
h/t Mauser
