Crisis on the Paris-Washington Line. France Blocks Access to Ministers for US Ambassador

The government of the French Republic has taken an unprecedented step in transatlantic relations by suspending all official government discourse channels for the newly appointed representative of the superpower. The decision constitutes a firm response from Paris to diplomatic insubordination. Charles Kushner, the American ambassador formally assigned to Paris, is alleged to have knowingly neglected an official meeting ultimately summoned by the Quai d'Orsay. Instead of appearing with explanations before the head of its diplomacy, Jean-Noël Barrot, the official treated diplomatic customs very selectively. Reacting, the minister stated the host country's position extremely emphatically in state media. „Quand on a l'honneur de représenter son pays en France, on respecte les usages de la diplomatie et on répond aux convocations” (When one has the honor of representing their country in France, one respects the usages of diplomacy and responds to summonses.) — Jean-Noël Barrot. The external reaction also came quickly, as the former EU commissioner, Thierry Breton, who is closely following the fractured alliance, publicly accused the Washington envoy of blatantly favoring the opposition and secretly meeting with selected nationalists, to the detriment of the official, stable power apparatus of both sides. The ban on direct procedural talks with the cabinet will be strictly enforced until an appropriate defense is presented and the ambassador's own conduct is legitimized. The modern and complicated history of American-French politics has often encountered criminal shocks along the way. In September 2021, Paris's angry opposition after the breaking of a defense contract concerning state-of-the-art Australian submarines forced the hasty withdrawal of its own diplomatic counterpart from Washington. Nevertheless, the immediate severing of contacts with an allied official inside the country is among the ultimate diplomatic moves. Meanwhile, the brutal foreign conflict is fueled by extremely shaken national unity following the death of twenty-three-year-old activist Quentin Deranque. Political enemies are seizing arms after this event. Tuesday morning began immediately with a sudden tightening of security restrictions in cooperation with President Emmanuel Macron, who ordered the convening of an emergency meeting focused on dangerous formations sowing fear in cities. The riots forced, among other things, the deployment of intervention and an investigation in Bordeaux following physical assaults on three innocent youths during ongoing mourning marches, as well as the rapid evacuation of the Green party's premises in Lyon due to danger. Fanatics are targeting moderate left-wing objects, demanding ruthless bloody retribution against supposedly grave enemies of freedom after the boy's murder. Dynamics of the State Crisis: 12 February — Murder Act; 23 February — Official Absence; 24 February — Closed Doors; 24 February — Head of State's Response Tragedies systematically boost the political capital of both strongly polarized sides of the conflict, completely stripping institutional consensus of all dignity and dragging victims into the party's grinding machine. Evidence of the widespread lack of restraint among supporters of extreme rhetoric regimes is the vandalism of public facilities and the threatening of opposition leaders without consequences. On the distant Mediterranean coast, the political center of candidate Martine Vassal, who has the right to run for government in the Marseille city hall, was doused with red paint by vandals, preceding a brutal insult predicting the politician's death. Even in the opinion of François Hollande, the leader and initiator of workers' circles, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, did not shy away from this cruel market trend. He is believed to be thoughtlessly steering such a centered national aggression against pro-left factions to create disliked fascists as convenient electoral opponents next year, deliberately forgetting about moderate voters from the peripheries. The mourning family expressed its incredibly strong doubt and great condemnation of all militias exploiting this for their own purposes, chanting corrupted anti-immigration ideology slogans at the expense of the deceased boy. Currently, the widespread lack of inhibition among agitators from both strong factions worsens the condition of objective solutions after lamentable mistakes.