"Never let a serious crisis go to waste", is a given Now to attribute to the french gvt any grand scheming here, like they organized everything to the last detail for that very moment since decades, is really overestimating what it's capable of Really. Now the rootless clique encouraging the french gvt, among other western gvt, to go in that general direction/to shoot itself in the foot at every level including this one for the promise of a bridge to the moon or some shit... Through various incentives... For the usual end game... Yeah, that's par for the course. "never interrupt an enemy making a mistake" is also a classic