“Il already parasites.”
I am not sure where I heard this French expression for the first time. Maybe in a phone call with a bad connection or in a sound study that records voiceover. However, I was caught with me, because the parasites in English are the ticks or fleas that you find in your dog or (horrors) the milkmaid that takes your leg after swimming in a lake.
But in French the term parasites can also mean interference. Unwanted noise or background sound. That perfectly describes the control strategy of the current regime of the United States for chaos and confusion. Upload the noise, change the message from day to day to another, so that we end up questioning everything.
I couldn’t help smiling when I read Trump had called the Europeans “parasites.” Of the many things (insert the adjective of your choice) that have come out of your mouth, it seems to have captured the collective French imagination. And in the weeks that have followed, I have never felt so proud to be European.
“Why do they hate us?”
The question was discussed the duration of a recent C Politique episode, a television program that regularly tune in to watch Sunday night. Where intelligent people discuss the news and what it means, exchange not only information but also ideas. The most important thing is heard without interruption. I am deeply grateful to have access to reflexive program like this, especially now.
It is a question that touches us all. Historically, the United States and France have been close friends and allies, as well as Canada and the United States have been good neighbors. But recently, that friendship has been, if not, severely tense. To the point we ask ourselves: friend or enemy?
With the relations between France and the United States already worried, the French leftist politician, Raphaël Glucksmann, recently suggested that France should recover the statue of freedom. The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, shot that if so for the United States, the French would be “speaking German at this time.”
What most enraged the current regime of the United States is the fact that Europe is strong, with robust institutions that protect us from the whims of oligarchs prone to temperament. Then he can’t do what he hears. Trump may want Greenland, but he will have to go first from Denmark, maybe even face the entire European Union. Assuming, or course, that we can gather our forces for a clean military response. We are not yet there by any means, and the union is far from perfect, but the good news is that we are moving forward to fight our own battles. It’s time.
An editorial in the French newspaper, L’Pribs, advises Trump to vary from the parasites: “Eh oui, Monsieur Trump, Tous Les Biologos Vous Le Direct, Les” Parasitos “Ontu. Ils Sont Users à Tout Ecosystème”.
The parasites, apparently, are good for the ecosystem.
For my part, I am doing everything possible to disconnect the constant flood of interference and unwanted noise through the Atlantic.
Et toi?
