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5 min readIn the span of a single week, nearly a million people gathered in Paris for a Catholic mass with Pope Leo, and days later, students were burning down schools in the same city. Glenn Beck and his guests—Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz and analyst Simone Rodan-Benzaquen—argue this isn't a contradiction but a revelation of two Frances at war, and that the United States is following the same path, just a few years behind.
The French Trap: A Debt Crisis That Becomes a Street Crisis
The riots that began in September started with an ordinary complaint: overcrowded classrooms, absent teachers, crumbling buildings. Within three weeks, it became a national crisis. Students blockaded more than 400 high schools; 24 schools were burned or ransacked. More than 600 police officers were injured, and roughly 5,000 people were arrested, 85 percent of them children.
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- 1 (01:02) **President Trump Signs Red Diesel Executive Order** - Glenn opens by explaining the president’s temporary deferral of diesel taxes for truckers through December 31st, and why Congress must back it up.
- 2 (03:57) **France's School Riots: From Complaints to National Crisis** - Glenn describes how a protest over rundown schools in a Paris suburb escalated into a nationwide conflagration with burned buildings, thousands of arrests, and a government response of promises and order-restoration.
- 3 (07:01) **The Two Stories Are One: Debt and Rage** - Glenn connects France’s fiscal crisis to the street violence, arguing that a bankrupt state that takes much and delivers little is the root cause.
- 4 (10:59) **Historical Parallel: The French Revolution Began with an Interest Payment** - Glenn draws a direct line from France’s debt from funding the American Revolution to the 1789 revolution, arguing the pattern repeats today.
- 5 (15:19) **JD Vance’s Mission: Find the Corruption** - Glenn pivots to U.S. politics, arguing that Donald Trump gave JD Vance the biggest gift possible by putting him in charge of rooting out corruption.
- 6 (18:34) **Interview: Ambassador Mike Waltz on Global Crises** - Glenn asks the U.S. Ambassador to the UN whether the bombers leaving Britain, cartel shootings, French riots, and fuel prices are separate problems or the same fight.
- 7 (21:51) **U.S. Bombers Pulled from Britain & Iran Blockade Update** - Waltz confirms an active plot against U.S. strategic assets in Britain, and details the success of “Operation Economic Fury” against Iran.
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Glenn gives an update on the current political unrest that is happening in France. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz joins to discuss whether the cockpit plot, cartel drones, and the toll on the Strait of Hormuz are all part of the same fight. Glenn explains why he believes France is now divided into two sections: one that still holds to its Catholic faith and one that wants to tear down what it no longer understands.
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