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"La France Insoumise MP David Guiraud told Jacobin in January that France’s manufactured deficit crisis was part of a premeditated plan to cut social spending.

“French capitalists have never tolerated social security,” Guiraud said then. “When it was created . . . it was hundreds of billions of euros which escaped the logic of the private sector, hundreds of billions of euros which they couldn’t make a profit off of. They know that they’re breaking social security. They know it. I think they do it deliberately for the most part.”

Boosting military spending while trying to maintain “fiscal discipline” will result in the same thing. A column by Janan Ganesh in the Financial Times on March 5 titled “Europe must trim its welfare state to build a warfare state” gave away the game even more directly.

“[T]he welfare state as we have known it must retreat somewhat: not enough that we will no longer call it by that name, but enough to hurt,” Ganesh wrote.

The threat of war is a useful motive.

“Chronic discomfort isn’t enough,” Ganesh elaborated. “An element of real fear has to come in, as perhaps it has now.”"

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/france-eu-defense-spending-austerity

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