Andrei Martyanov sees my trepidation about and warning to the French right, and raises me some 1990s turmoil.

They still left the clause that “should things change”. Not on their watch, they will not. Present Europe should be allowed to collapse and its population experience all joys of what Russia experienced in 1990s. It is coming, and, in fact, is already happening. In my video today I am not impressed by Le Pen’s party preliminary win–too little, too late. Change in rhetoric doesn’t mean change in policies.

France is getting deeper into the emergency action needed yesterday territory, where the USSA was 35 years ago. Time will tell, but here’s to a little (realistic) optimism. Droite?