Government increases fuel tax: they revolt.
Government wants to cut social benefits: they revolt.
Government increases workweek hours: they revolt.
German's invade, they re ................ oh wait. Nevermind.
Macron's approval rating fell to 23 percent in the poll conducted late last week, down six points on the previous month.
The first "yellow vest" demonstrations were held on Nov. 17 to contest fuel-tax rises, and have since evolved into a broader protest movement and anti-Macron uprising...."
Little Macaroni is in serious trouble with the populous just as he was looking to fit into that Napoleon costume he's been modeling for his schoolmarm wife.
In 1914, they stopped the Germans short of Paris.
In 1940, many fought, but many others were poorly trained and overwhelmed.
They may “revolt” when they get squeezed too hard by the government, but it shows how much control the government has over them. That hasn’t changed.
Look, this is just ridiculous. The French fought, and they fought gallantly, in 1940. Their problem was poor leadership that was trying to refight WWI, and totally failed to anticipate the extent to which German mechanised blitzkrieg allowed them fire-in-mobility capability.
It’s because Europeans expect everything from “the government”. The French want to retire with full inflated pensions at the lowest age, have the lowest work-week hours in Europe, get their salaries raised by “the government” even though their productivity is very low, get ”free” inferior medical care, and have the feel good, virtue signaling EU carbon tax. Then suddenly they discover that somebody’s got to pay it, and guess what, they’re the payees. And somehow it doesn’t look that great anymore.