EDITORIAL • France is burning and the incompetent President Macron is pleading for calm. Then a man steps forward who has actually done what everyone else calls impossible. And he says exactly what I have said for years.

What began in mid-September as school blockades in the Paris region has spread throughout the country and turned into riots with arson attacks on schools, assaults on police officers, and looted shops.

As of October 11th, 6,877 people had been taken into police custody and more than 700 police officers and gendarmes injured, according to statistics Samnytt has published from France’s Europe 1. Over the weekend, city halls in Marseille and Lille were also stormed, and shops were looted in Marseille.

In the midst of this, El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele wrote a short post on X.

I have heard it said that France is lost, that it is too late to save the country. But France is still just as beautiful, even enviable. Its greatness has not disappeared, it is simply waiting to be reborn.

We overcame in a year a problem that was a hundred times more severe, without having the resources at France’s disposal. France could fix it in a week.

It’s Not Resources That Are Lacking

Bukele knows what he’s talking about. El Salvador was one of the world’s most violence-stricken countries. Under his leadership, tens of thousands of suspected gang members have been detained and new high-security prisons built. Human rights organizations complain about arbitrary arrests and a lack of legal safeguards, but today residents can move about in areas previously controlled by gangs.

But he correctly points out that France lacks neither money nor police. On the contrary, France has more of both than El Salvador ever had. What is missing is the will to use them.

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That’s exactly what I myself have claimed, regarding France as well as Sweden. Almost anything can be solved if you simply do what is required. Either you bend the laws and rules that exist, or you simply change them.

Rules others have made for us are not laws of nature. On the contrary, they are often shackles imposed on us, shackles we should not heed considering the same people who created them also created the multicultural chaos we see in Western Europe. Their words or opinions shouldn’t be worth anything.

The Statutes Win – And With Them, the Criminals

In Europe, there is always something standing in the way. A convention, a court in Strasbourg or Luxembourg, a proportionality principle, or an inquiry that must first be appointed – or simply the willpower. Every action must be weighed against hundreds of statutes, while those who set fire to schools are not weighed at all. It is a game the state loses every time.

A quote now making the rounds online is said to be from Jordan Peterson’s book “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos”:

And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of

It couldn’t be truer, because these weak leaders around Western Europe have taken what could have been a successful paradise and turned it into the third world.

Bukele chose a different path. He made up his mind first and let the regulations come second. You may have whatever opinion you like about that, but the results are undeniable.

Europe’s politicians do the opposite. They put more energy into explaining why nothing can be done than actually accomplishing anything. Meanwhile, the schools are burning, and ordinary French people – and Europeans – are paying the price.

France could fix it in a week, says Bukele. I believe him. The question is whether there is a single leader in Europe who dares to try. Unfortunately, we already know the answer.

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