France Can’t Pass a Budget — Yet Claims to Rule Others

A country that once dictated constitutions abroad is now begging for emergency laws just to keep spending. Parliament is paralysed. Governments fall one after another. Deficits explode. Investors watch nervously. This is what decline looks like.

By Ali Dan Ismael Editor-in-Chief

France is entering a new year without a budget. No plan. No agreement. No authority. The same France that lectures Africans about governance. The same France that shields Yaoundé. The same France that pretends to manage stability in Southern Cameroons. Today, that France cannot govern itself. This is not a technical problem. It is a political collapse in slow motion.

A country that once dictated constitutions abroad is now begging for emergency laws just to keep spending. Parliament is paralysed. Governments fall one after another. Deficits explode. Investors watch nervously. This is what decline looks like. Empires do not fall with fireworks. They fall with confusion.

Cameroon’s occupation of Southern Cameroons survives on illusion and on foreign sponsorship. That sponsorship comes at a cost. France is now drowning in its own bills. When money tightens, priorities change. When voters suffer, foreign adventures lose charm. When the centre weakens, the periphery shakes loose. Paris is no longer strong. Paris is overstretched.

From the Sahel to Central Africa, France is losing ground. Troops withdraw. Influence fades. Now the mask slips at home. A state that cannot pass a budget cannot pretend to be the guardian of order elsewhere. The myth is broken.

This is not victory. But it is confirmation. The system holding Ambazonia down is unstable. The sponsor propping Yaoundé up is weakening. The old referee is losing the whistle. History is clear: liberation movements do not defeat empires at their strongest. They outlast them at their weakest. France has entered that phase.

France without a budget is France without authority. An empire arguing with itself has no mandate to rule others. Southern Cameroons is not waiting for permission. The world is changing, and Paris is no longer in control. Truth in Resistance. Clarity in Crisis.

Ali Dan Ismael