My three-step analysis.

Step 1 is the foundation of a structural societal fact

European anti-Americanism — and French in particular—is not a conjunctural reaction to the USA-Iran conflict. It is an inherited configuration, which pre-exists any event. In France, it is built on three pillars that reinforce each other: cultural post-Gaullism (the idea that France should weigh as much as Washington), the intellectual third-worldism of the 1960s-1970s, which was never entirely dismantled, a form of anti-liberal reflex in the academic and media elites. It is therefore not an analysis of the conflict—it is a filter prior to any analysis.

Step 2 is a strategic activation: The Iranian narrative manipulation

It would be an analytical error to underestimate the sophistication of........

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