L’aveuglement stratégique du régime français ne mènera à rien

The strategic blindness of the French regime will not lead to anything

Faced with Algeria

Faced with Algeria, France has shown strategic blindness and pays the prize, says a blog post published by the French daily “Mediapart”. This price that France pays is linked to geopolitical, geoeconomic, geostrategic and security underlying in Algerian-French relations. Thus, the recent diplomatic crisis with Algeria deprives France of a “strategic lever” in Africa and the Mediterranean, according to “Mediapart”. In this long post published under the title “France in the face of Algeria: the price of a strategic blindness”, the author underlines the “potential loss” for France of a “key market” and a “strategic partner” in Africa and in the Mediterranean. “By confronting Algiers for political reasons, Paris isolates himself and deprives himself of a key market. Colonial heritage, lobbies, strategic myopia: France risks losing Africa a second time, ”he warned. For the author of this post, the denunciation by Algiers of the Algerian-French agreement of 2013 relating to the reciprocal exemption of visas for holders of diplomatic passports and service “sign that the balance of power was reversed. This time, it is Algiers who whistles the end of the game, ”he notes. This denunciation “is not a simple technical gesture”, he points out, but “a clear political message”. He believes, in this regard, that “the consequences are immediate and heavy: the end of the entry and traffic facilities for French diplomats, questioning of the real estate advantages granted to French institutions, freezing of whole bilateral programs”. But, he continues, “the symbol goes beyond these practical aspects: Algiers shows that it no longer undergoes, that it now fixes the tempo and that it is not afraid to engage a standoff”, adding that “Algeria, in full economic ascent and in full diplomatic diversification, positions itself as a central player in Africa and in the Mediterranean, attracting international investments and reinforcing its alliances”. France: The shock strategy with the Algerian government will not lead anywhere. For his part, the founder of La France Insoumise (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who criticizes the “aggressiveness” of the French rulers towards Algeria, warns that the strategy of the shock with the Algerian government will not lead anywhere. In a text published on his blog, the French political leader noted that the aggressiveness of the French rulers towards Algeria “afflicts, worries and despairs”, believing that “the strategy of the shock with the Algerian government does not lead anywhere. It renews the lamentable mirages of the past ”. “The age of the colonies and European supremacy is finished, well finished and so much the better,” he insists, criticizing the policy of the French president with both Algeria and Africa as a whole. “After having expelled France from almost all of Africa, Macron decided to accompany the provocations of his Minister of the Interior against Algeria (…) and by pushing the French in divorce with the Maghreb, the Macronie commits a fault that our country will not recover as easily as its obstruate government elites and the various lobbies to (its) small cuisine believe. According to him, “there is no lasting future for France without or against the Maghreb and its peoples. Because if independence ended the various avatars of colonization, fortunately, they did not put an end to the appetite that peoples have for mutual fraternity. Whether or not it likes to curls and stunted from all French political varieties, our peoples are family, culturally, economically and spiritually nested ”. He said, in this context, that “Retailleau’s policy to which Macron has submitted, is unbearable violence. It does not lead anywhere if not new routs and injuries ”. Recalling, moreover, that Algeria “is the mortal mirage of dreams of power of political impotence of French leaders since 1830”, Mélenchon clarified that “the objectives set through the occupation of Algeria, in particular that of finding a lost glory, led to a failure”. “The resistance of the Algerians immediately began the invasion. And in one form or in another, she never released until the independence of 1962, “he said.
Lakhdar A.