“A Harris Interactive opinion poll for LCI showed 58 per cent of French voters polled supported the military officers who signed the controversial declaration , compared with 42 per cent who were opposed. Among respondents who said they supported a political party, 86 per cent of RN [ Rassemblement National] sympathisers backed the soldiers. For the centre-right Les Républicains party, support was at 71 per cent, and even in Macron’s La République en Marche party it was at 46 per cent.”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51