Empires of lies don’t fall from blows. They fall the day no one believes in them anymore
Tue 10:04 am +00:00, 20 Oct 2026
Source: https://x.com/brivael/status/2111832422715195456
There will be a before and an after October 17, 2026. Let’s stop being told that French youth rose up for a school system that’s broken down. It’s false. The vast majority of high school students weren’t in the streets on Saturday. If you asked their opinion, they’d say they want to study, work, build their lives. The silent majority doesn’t burn down town halls.
What we saw on Saturday wasn’t a social revolt. It was total instrumentalization. Radicalized structures using 16-year-old kids as a moral shield and legitimate demands as a smokescreen. But we need to understand where it comes from.
For 20 years, the central bloc has governed hand in hand with Brussels globalism. Macron, Ursula von der Leyen, the Commission—the same reflexes, the same contempt for nations, the same certainty of being right against the people. They let immigration manage itself. They let the school system collapse. They let life become unaffordable. And every time someone dared say it, they labeled them racist, fascist, far-right. This system manufactured chaos. And today, it’s the far left reaping it.
That’s the entanglement no one wants to name. Globalist centrism created the void. The far left rushed into it, leaning on mismanaged immigration and a youth that’s been abandoned. The two hate each other on the surface. In reality, one produces the fractures, the other exploits them. And both have a common enemy: those who’ve been telling the truth from the start.
On Saturday, millions of French people watched the images. Limoges town hall in flames. A police station ransacked in Marseille. Journalists assaulted in Paris. And they understood: those who were being silenced were simply describing reality.
That’s why I’m optimistic. We’re at the dawn of a global awakening. I’ve been saying it for a long time: we’re going to live a new 1989. Empires of lies don’t fall from blows. They fall the day no one believes in them anymore. France will fall first. But she’ll fall first to rise first. The end of globalism embodied by Macron and von der Leyen won’t be the end of the West. It will be its rebirth.
On October 17, something broke. Not France. The lie. We’ll remember it.
