Under normal circumstances, it would be strange to announce that the French have surrendered in the face of a serious challenge. Making a big deal out of a French surrender would be like talking about a Canadian who profusely apologizes, or a Russian who gets drunk, or a North Korean who loves Dear Leader, or a young black male who got himself into some legal trouble. These kinds of things happen every day. And if I devoted any amount of effort to cataloguing all of the times in which the French have waved the white flag, we simply wouldn’t have time to discuss anything else.
But today, we’re going to talk about a French surrender, because this particular retreat has ramifications for the West at-large, and in particular for the United States. The French government has just announced that, for the first time, they’re going to cancel their traditional midnight concert on New Year’s Eve along the iconic Champs Élysées in Paris, which usually draws a crowd of more than a million people.
So they’re still going to have the fireworks at midnight, but they’re urging everyone to stay at home, instead of attending any parade on the avenue. Why are they cancelling the traditional parade, you might ask?
Here’s the New York Post with the explanation, although you’ve probably guessed already.
The famed avenue has become a flashpoint of violence lately, with throngs of young, mostly Muslim migrants streaming in from Paris’ infamous suburbs at night looking for trouble, looting luxury stores, and brawling with Parisians and police. The Paris police, which pressed the mayor to scrap the concert, cited security concerns such as ‘unpredictable crowd movements’ without going into details. … Even open-air Christmas markets are being treated as high-risk targets by France’s interior minister. In an urgent letter to state officials, he warned of a ‘very high terror threat’ – citing groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS – and ordered beefed up police presence at Christmas markets, and to restrict vehicle access and mobilize intelligence agencies.
As it turns out, this report is something of an understatement. I went looking through footage since 2017, and every single year, there’s been some kind of violent attack or riot — mostly committed by France’s non-native population. If it’s not an explicit act of terror, it’s usually a riot over some career thug who was shot by a police officer, or Moroccans who are really excited about soccer. Each clip is from a separate incident in or around the center of Paris, in the vicinity of (or directly on) Champs Élysées Boulevard.
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We could show another hour of footage like this. It’s been going on for a long time. And, rather than correct the problem at any point in the last decade or two, French and European officials have continued to allow millions of foreigners — particularly Muslims who despise the West — into their communities. After all this time, the decision for the French government was always going to come down to one of two options. The first option was a Trump-style crackdown and mass-deportations — which probably wouldn’t even be enough at this point. The second option was surrender. And they’ve chosen the latter option.
This is a humiliating collapse that somehow gets even worse when you remember that France used to be a global empire. They had territory in Canada, the midwest, India, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and so on. They helped us win our independence. They had the second-best navy in the world for centuries. Napoleon conquered most of continental Europe. And now they’re so weak, so cowardly, and so defeated by foreign invaders that they can’t even host a New Year’s parade. They have to cower in their homes and watch their annual parade on their televisions, because the risk that a Muslim terrorist will run them over, shoot them, or blow them up is simply too high.
That’s not to single out the French. All of the West is experiencing the consequences of mass migration, all at once. On Sunday, there was an Islamist terror attack in Australia. Meanwhile in Germany, authorities just shut down a plot to drive a vehicle through a Christmas market. The terror cell consisted of three Moroccans, an Egyptian and a Syrian. And while it’s obviously good news that the attack didn’t succeed, there are many, many more plots like this, which are unfolding all the time. In France alone, the government says they’ve intercepted six terror plots in the past year. It’s only a matter of time before one of them succeeds.
The same is true here in the United States. Even when terror plots are intercepted, the authorities don’t exactly inspire confidence. As you may have heard, the DOJ just announced that it had disrupted a series of bombings against targets in Orange County and Los Angeles, beginning on New Year’s Eve. The perpetrators, authorities say, are members of the “Turtle Island Liberation Front,” or TILF, which is apparently a far-left, pro-Palestine, pro-“indigenous”, anarchist and anti-capitalist organization that literally no one has heard of, before this week. So they’re not Islamists; they’re communist Antifa types. They were also going to target ICE agents, according to the DOJ. And in a dramatic, Tom-Clancy-style moment, they were apprehended by a SWAT team in the desert, as they were assembling their bombs — unaware of the presence of an FBI surveillance plane watching them.
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As easy as it would be to celebrate these arrests as an unequivocal win for the FBI — an agency that badly needs an unequivocal win — there’s reason for skepticism here. And that’s not just because the FBI hasn’t raided many, many more Leftists groups by now, three months after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
First of all, the indictment is somewhat reminiscent of the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping case from 2020. If you remember that investigation, the official narrative was that a bunch of right-wingers hatched a plan to kidnap the governor of Michigan and force her to stand trial for treason because of her COVID policies. But, as it turned out, reality was much less dramatic. The FBI (and its informants) pushed the plot on a bunch of stoners and broke losers — some of whom were acquitted at trial, after they successfully argued they had been entrapped by the agency. There was no date set for the kidnapping, or any real evidence that many of the alleged conspirators ever took it seriously.
Nearly half the people in the kidnapping van were working for the FBI in some capacity. One of the lead FBI agents on the case was convicted of beating his wife. It was a debacle.
So with that in mind, here’s the indictment of the TILF terrorists. This was first reported by Ken Silva.
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In late November 2025, CAROLL, a member of TILF, provided a Confidential Human Source (or CHS) an eight-page, handwritten document titled OPERATION MIDNIGHT SUN that described a bombing plot. … The CHS is cooperating with law enforcement and is a validated and vetted source. The CHS has been a reliable source of information since August 2021. The CHS is cooperating for financial compensation. The CHS does not have any criminal history.
Separately, the indictment makes it clear that an undercover FBI employee was present during a meeting of the alleged co-conspirators on December 7.
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On or about the early morning of December 7, 2025, the CHS and the undercover FBI employee met with [the defendants] … CAROLL stated she had ‘the plan’ and handed GAFFIELD four sheets of paper with writing on the front and back of each page, which GAFFIELD and the undercover FBI employee read. The undercover FBI employee later told law enforcement that the papers contained detailed instructions on how to construct a black powder pipe bomb.
Okay. So to recap: the four defendants have been arrested in this case. That’s a pretty small group. TILF isn’t exactly al-Qaeda. And yet, this very small group of TILFs managed to give their entire plan in writing to an FBI informant — someone who’s paid an undisclosed amount of money to build cases like this. And, as if that wasn’t enough, the TILFs also managed to invite an FBI employee to their secret hideaway to discuss the attack.
To be clear, I’m not suggesting that the TILFs are innocent, or that the FBI didn’t do a great job in arresting these people. But given what happened with the Whitmer investigation, and given how much direct involvement the FBI had with this sleeper cell, we really can’t be sure at this point.
And things get even worse when you see this tweet, from MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian. In case you’re not familiar with Ken, he is, by far, the most prolific deep state propagandist in the corporate press. He was caught, many years ago, allowing the CIA to vet his stories prior to publication. That should’ve ended his career, but it didn’t — because the role of the corporate press is simply to repeat what the intelligence agencies say. To that end, Ken has spent the last decade pushing every FBI hoax under the sun — from Russiagate, to the Hunter Biden laptop being Russian disinformation, and so on. He is, put simply, one of the most sinister and untrustworthy individuals on the Left, which is genuinely saying something.
And here’s what Ken wrote about the FBI’s latest bust.
I’m told by people I trust this was a real plot—and the FBI put a lot of resources into unraveling it. Sounds like really good investigative work.
File that under “things less true for having been said.” That’s an all-timer. When you have Ken Dilanian in your corner — the guy whose nickname is literally “Fusion Ken” because he promoted the fake Steele dossier to smear Donald Trump — then you have a serious credibility problem. The FBI getting praised by Ken Dilanian is like your broker getting endorsed by Bernie Madoff. Ken does not care about the truth. He’s never pretended to care about the truth. He doesn’t even really care about partisan politics, strictly speaking. His only purpose is to advance the interests of the intelligence agencies — specifically, the unelected members of these agencies that conduct all of the day-to-day operations. So when Ken Dilanian is declaring that the FBI did some “really good investigative work,” we have every reason to infer that the exact opposite is true.
And of course, we also have our own eyes and ears. We can see, for example, how the FBI has conducted the investigation into the mass shooting at Brown University — a school with thousands of cameras, none of which are apparently useful.
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The other day, FBI agents from the ‘evidence response team’ were filmed looking for clues around the campus of Brown University by walking around and kicking the snow with their feet — which doesn’t seem like the best way to detect evidence. But it’s what they went with. They didn’t bring any kind of equipment or anything. They’re just scoping out the terrain, hoping to stumble across a gun. Just from an optics perspective, it’s an embarrassing display that strongly suggests the FBI has no idea what it’s even looking for. They certainly don’t seem to have any sense of urgency.
That needs to change — and not just because one of the murdered students was the vice president of the school’s College Republicans chapter, which obviously suggests a possible political motivation. This was a mass shooting at a major university — one in which, according to an article syndicated by Yahoo News, the shooter may have shouted “Allahu Akbar” during the rampage.
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As you can see, that article cites students and other witnesses for that claim, which as of now, the authorities have not verified. And every time they’re asked about whether the shooter shouted something — and what he may have shouted — local officials in Providence duck the question, to a comical degree.
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Watch the Providence Chief of Police, for nearly 2 minutes, avoid telling the press what the Brown University shooter yelled when he started shooting.
It got so bad the Mayor had to step in and “wrap it up.” pic.twitter.com/3wem2dS34b
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) December 16, 2025
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It’s clear they don’t want to answer the question, which suggests one of two possibilities. Either they want to cover for the shooter, or they’re so incompetent that they need to be fired, immediately. And it’s not just the local authorities who are failing here. The FBI is failing, too. They need to take the lead here, and explain what, if anything, these local officials are covering up. The authorities have already completely botched the investigation. First they detained a person of interest, then released him. Then, state and local officials held a series of press conferences that undermined all confidence in the investigation. They brought out a weird fake sign language interpreter, then started speaking in Spanish for some reason.
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At a certain point, you have to ask yourself: When exactly did our country fall apart in such a visible and embarrassing fashion? What was the moment where everyone in a position of power, seemingly all at once, became incompetent parodies of themselves? Until this week, did anyone seriously think a mass shooter could open fire in the middle of a major university and just walk out, and remain completely nameless and unidentified for several days? Did anyone think that, in the aftermath, the FBI’s response would amount to walking around like zombies in the snow, and overseeing press conferences that feel like sketch comedy routines? It’s enough to make you wonder — if the parents of Charlie Kirk’s assassin hadn’t turned him in, would the FBI have ever found him? It’s starting to look like the answer to that question is “no.”
It’s true that we haven’t fallen as far as France — yet. We’re not completely powerless, and forced to hide in our homes as marauding Muslim hordes terrorize our New Year’s parades. But we’re not far off. Our leaders are willing to hold meaningless press conferences — where they tell us they’re hot on the heels of the Brown shooter, or where they tell us Ilhan Omar is living in this country illegally, or where they tell us that Antifa is now a domestic terrorist organization — but they won’t actually do anything about it. They’ll arrest some “TILFs” and call it a day.
There’s no more time for this. As we trip over ourselves, we are being invaded from within. And at the moment, the signal we’re sending to these invaders is a very familiar one. Like France, Germany, Australia, and the UK before us, we’re advertising our own incompetence to the world. We’re demonstrating our willingness to be subjugated and destroyed. And if someone in this administration doesn’t send a very different signal, and soon, then the enemies of civilization are guaranteed to take us up on that offer.