France looks like it will elect the left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Melenchón, the new Léon Blum. Nothing could be worse. In any case, previous results show that Le Pen's populist right has advanced from 88 to 150 seats. But France leaves the elections divided: I imagine that Macron's centrist coalition with the socialists to block the RN will create a weak and paralyzed government paving the way for a Le Pen victory in 2027.

From Hitler's proclamation of 22 June 1941, 83 years ago today, the first day of Operation Barbarossa:

*The German people have never had hostile feelings toward the peoples of Russia. During the last two decades, however, the Jewish-Bolshevist rulers in Moscow have attempted to set not only Germany, but all of Europe, aflame. Germany has never attempted to spread its National Socialist worldview to Russia. Rather, the Jewish-Bolshevist rulers in Moscow have constantly attempted to subject us and the other European peoples to their rule. They have attempted this not only intellectually, but above all through military means.

The results of their efforts, in every nation, were only chaos, misery, and starvation.

I, on the other hand, have tried for two decades to build a new socialist order in Germany, with a minimum of interference and without harming our productive capacity. This has not only eliminated unemployment, but also the profits of labor have flowed increasingly to working people....

At this moment, an attack unprecedented in the history of the world in its extent and size has begun. With Finnish comrades, the victors of Narvik stand by the Arctic Sea. German divisions, under the command of the conqueror of Norway, together with the heroes of Finland’s freedom and their marshal, defend Finnish soil. On the Eastern Front, German formations extend from East Prussia to the Carpathians. From the banks of the Pruth River, from the lower Danube to the Black Sea, German and Romanian soldiers are united under state leader Antonescu.

The purpose of this front is no longer the protection of the individual nations, but rather the safety of Europe, and therefore the salvation of everyone.*

Read the full proclamation here: https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/hitler4.htm

research.calvin.edu

Hitler’s Proclamation of 22 June 1941

Hitler explains his attack on the Soviet Union.

A chief and ten soldiers take refuge in a trench. So fall a deadly grenade. A soldier throws himself at her and smothers the explosion with his body: died, but saved everyone else; he is a hero. It is necessary to warn, in this for example, that the hero, in his absolute instance, is the charismatic leader of the group. Let's take a closer look: this is a professional army, there are hierarchies and ranks military personnel, superiors and subordinates, bosses and soldiers. However, this organization, the exterior, this superficial order, does not count in the face of imponderable Death; the inner forces of the human order are powerless to oppose the dissolving power of Death.
When the grenade falls into the trench, only Death and the men who will die are real.In this moment of terror there are no superiors and subordinates, chiefs and soldiers, but men who are going to die. But someone decides to oppose his body to Death. Think of amoment and decides to stop Death, he will not let it pass beyond him. It's not a suicide: it's aact of giving one's life in favor of an ideal. “I die so they can triumph.”