Macron’s victory reveals the influence of French Deep State

According to Ohio Northern University Assistant Professor of History Robert Waters* "Emmanuel Macron’s election victory showcases that the French Deep State establishment backs the European Commission in Brussels and continues to support the euro currency of a majority of EU member states".

Emmanuel Macron’s election victory proved the continuing strength of the Deep State establishment in France and gives another short lease of life to the centralized European Union and its weak common currency, the euro.

"The French Deep State is much deeper than America's,"  Robert Waters said on Tuesday. "The French press ban against using the leaked Macron emails would never have flown in the United States."

Waters said that Macron’s victory confirmed the continued support of the powerful French state to prop up the European Commission in Brussels and continue to support the euro currency of a majority of EU member states.

It gives the European union and euro reprieves," he said.
However, Macron did not owe his victory to popular support for the European Union, but rather to widespread completely false fears that his opponent on Sunday, former National Front leader Marine Le Pen was nationalist, Waters explained.

Political commentator and Professor of Neuroscience and John Walsh** agreed that Macron’s victory would provide a renewed lease of life for the French big state and liberal-internationalist establishment and he warned that ordinary French workers and the middle class would suffer greatly as a result.

"It is as though [outgoing President Francois] Hollande got five more years in office. The same forces will continue to be at play and the position of the ‘indigenous’ French working classes will continue to deteriorate," he said.

However, Walsh said these conditions would offer Marine Le Pen a window of opportunity to stage a political come back and win the presidency in the next scheduled election five years from now.

"That means… that in 2022 Le Pen can win, but only if she does something crucial. She must break with the old FN [National Front] completely and the reputation it has," he said.

Walsh also suggested that defeated presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon of the Left Party who almost reached the runoff vote could also prove to be a future national leader.
"Melenchon came out of nowhere to do very well. If his party can become a party that offers a way forward for the working classes, the future is his. France is a country that leans left… I would say that the future belongs even more to Melenchon than to Le Pen," he added.

Melenchon is scarcely mentioned in the US media, but he can offer a future that is compatible with a leftist outlook, Walsh concluded.

Source: Sputnik

* Robert Anthony Waters, Jr., is visiting assistant professor of history at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. He was selected as Arts and Sciences “Outstanding Teacher” during 2005-2006. Until Hurricane Katrina, he had been associate professor of history at Southern University of New Orleans, a historically Black university. Waters has also worked as a civil rights lawyer. He earned his bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the University of California before going insane and quitting to attend the University of Mississippi, where he earned his doctorate and juris doctorate.

Waters is author of the Historical Dictionary of U.S.-Africa Relations (Scarecrow Press), and articles on Africa and Guyana published in The Political Science Reviewer and The Journal of Caribbean History. He is co-author (with Gordon Daniels of Mississippi Valley State University) of articles on the United States and Guyana published in Diplomatic History, the Revue Belge de Philologie et D’Histoire, and Cold War History. Along with Geert van Goethem, Director of the Archive and Museum of the Belgian Labor Movement, Waters co-edited American Labor’s Global Ambassadors: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War (Palgrave Macmillan). He is completing an article with Jan Koura of Charles University in Prague on Guyana’s Cold War relations with Czechoslovakia.

** John Walsh, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Gerontology and a member of the Neuroscience Program at USC. He received his undergraduate degree in biology from the University of California, Irvine, and was awarded a Ph.D. in physiology and biomedical sciences from the University of Texas School of Medicine in Houston. Dr. Walsh’s research focuses on the electrophysiological analysis of brain areas that are targets of age related disease. Studies on aging, calcium, and free radical physiology are performed in Dr. Walsh’s laboratory as they relate to changes in synaptic plasticity and cell behavior. His research also examines how toxic environmental challenges affect nerve cell populations typically lost in Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease.