They are in for a big surprise.
They’re awfully dumb, awfully arrogant, and awfully presumptious. They’re used to the people being asleep, or inactive, or silent, or distracted, or getting up a head of steam and then getting bored with it and going away. They’re also used to the states sitting back and taking whatever they dish out to them.
This time, I hope, they will have judged us incorrectly.