In the normally quiet city of Limoges in central France, the entire Western world is being given a lesson as the historic 143-year-old town hall, which survived two world wars, is destroyed by fire amid the ongoing riots and civil strife gripping towns and cities across France.
But it’s not like there were no warnings of the breakdown of social cohesion and civil strife.
In 2021, a group of retired and active-duty members of the French military, including 20 generals, authored an open letter to the French government.
