Paris Is Burning

"The West Is Not Falling"

Shortly after the abortive Wagner Group rebellion in Russia, some American neoliberal pundits used it as evidence that, unlike Russia, the West was ascendant. 

In response to that general attitude, if not to the specific example above, one of the leading Twitter accounts tracking the war in Ukraine, "UkraineMaps", turned his attention to the chaos in the West's most glamorous capital, Paris, which erupted in response to the shooting of a North African teen by French police. What followed was an extraordinary thread documenting the violence so far in metropolitan Paris, including the hijacking of a bus by rioters, the storming of a prison, and the apparent use of grenades and firearms against French riot police. I've posted UkraineMaps' thread below; before that though, a quick trading update. 

Trading Update: Under The Radar 

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Now onto UkraineMaps' extraordinary thread on the chaos in Paris. 

Chaos In Paris

Twitter settings prevent us from embedding UkraineMaps' thread here directly (weirdly, they don't throttle his Ukraine War tweets the same way), but you can see them all in the Thread Reader App by clicking on the link in the tweet below. 

For a small sample of what's happening in Paris now, see the tweets from a couple of other accounts below. 

#France 🇫🇷: A recent footage shows one of the protesters throwing a hand grenade on Police Forces in #Clichy, #Paris Region.

Although it's very difficult to make an exact identification, the grenade looks like a possible F-1? or RGD-5? (considering the fuze resembles the UZRGM). https://t.co/P4h2ic0sdf pic.twitter.com/KOYy0j2yvR

— War Noir (@war_noir) June 29, 2023