Here's why: The Islamo-Marxist mobs looting and burning France despise Western civilization.

Economically challenged and immigrant-overrun France is the Green-Red alliance's Western democratic target of the moment.

The color codes: Green for Islam. Red for Marxist/Communists.

Very strange bedfellows. A good, committed Marxist is an atheist. A good, committed Muslim worships Allah. That's a huge philosophical-theological gap — but they'll face off after they destroy the West. That's the bridge connecting them: despising Western democratic politics centered on individual rights and, of course, the West's economic and political success since roughly the 17th century.

The rioting Islamists (can we call them colonizers?) despise France for many reasons, but the Crusades, French colonialism and the Algerian War are on their grievance list. The Marxists swear France should have joined the Soviet Union and helped build The Workers' Paradise.

So the youthful Green-Red mobsters rage, burning cars, trash barrels and buildings in Paris, Limoges, Lyon, Lille, Marseille and dozens of other towns while demanding freedom for Palestine, more money for student education, an end to imperialism, lower prices, paid vacations, add your pet grievance, etc.

If it sounds like the Green-Red anarchists repeat the stale agitation-propaganda and social justice cant of 1960s European and American leftists (with occasional outbursts of Al Qaeda propaganda) — they do indeed. However, they don't care if it's a re-run. Via international media, the young French revolutionary rioters reach an impressionable global audience of hundreds of millions of teens and 20-somethings who've never heard of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) or Joseph Stalin.

But the rioters have scored a political victory. Their various demands and violent theatrics have flummoxed the current French government. The demonstrations began on Sept. 17. On Oct. 18, French President Emmanuel Macron finally denounced the rioters and arsonists and warned that "those who looted will have to pay for the damage, and those who sought to bring down the Republic will be held accountable."

Accountable for what that amounts to insurrection? By Oct. 20, some 2,400 rioters had been arrested. OK, 10 years in prison is a start at accounting for burning down Limoges' city hall, IF the arsonists are tried and convicted.

But Macron was so reluctant to let the gendarmes do their job. Why? My guess: He fears he will be called a racistracistracist (or the French equivalent) and an anti-Islamic bigot. Goodness. If he deployed the police en masse on Sept. 18, he would have looked like Donald Trump!

Bad joke? Macron's delay made his government look like a joke.

Unfortunately, the violence in France is no joke. This week, leftist groups in Albania, Italy, Portugal and Belgium staged violent street demonstrations.

Credible reports allege the French rioters have substantial financial resources provided by international actors.

Fox News Digital reported on Oct. 19 that 'a transnational network of communist and socialist organizations stretching from Europe to Asia, Australia, Africa and South America and North America" has amplified the global impact of the French riots. Reporters "identified 54 organizations and movements in France's October student protests and their wider network of supporters and international amplifiers, including communist parties, revolutionary socialist groups, labor unions, environmental activists, Muslim student advocates, Palestinian-solidarity organizations and international media outlets."

More: "Of the 54 organizations identified in the October protest ecosystem, 16 — or only about one in three — are student or youth organizations, including communist youth groups and a Muslim student association." The other 38 are "adult led" groups and organizations.

One organization stands out: "Tricontinental Ltd., a nonprofit funded by an American-born Marxist tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, who lives in Shanghai."

I think France and the U.S. both face an enemy waging plausibly deniable disintegrative war against them.

In the past six years, I've written several columns discussing disintegrative warfare. The term appears in chapter 13 of a book called "World System History: The Social Science of Long-Term Change." In a disintegrative war, a "unitary belligerent becomes increasingly fragmented by secessions."

Instead of classic territorial secession, a nation under disintegrative attack confronts social and economic fragmentation spawned by corrupt political machines, mass illegal immigration, attacks on police personnel, crime encouraged by district attorneys who put murderers back on the street and, of course, calculated riots.

And the nation falls from within.

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