I’m in France right now (in Paris) and it’s not in chaos.
People on FR have misunderstood a lot of this.
Macron is a total jerk, and if he had actually taken his nose out of the clouds and addressed people - ever, at any moment, but especially last week - this might be different.
He was actually trying to make reforms that would have cut back on the giant welfare state, made high school students meet standards that had been relaxed to the point of meaninglessness (and of course the students have now declared every Tuesday as “Black Tuesday”, because they plan to take the day off to riot) and made France more competitive. And that’s what the French were protesting...they wanted more socialism, not less.
But what was ignored by both Macron and the press is that the complaints of the original yellow vests related to Islamic immigration and paying for this insane EU “climate change” compact.
The French are fine with African or Middle Eastern Christians, and this has nothing to do with racism, but simply with the fact that, as we saw in Strasbourg yesterday, Muslims of any race or nationality don’t play well with others and have a conquest mentality.
And as for the climate change stuff, I happened to arrive last weekend while the anarchist riots were going on in one part of town...while in another there was an “anti climate change” and pro Global Compact march going on...attended by thousands of people, and, alas, including a large number of yellow vests. So don’t think the yellow vests are some kind of freedom fighters.
Better an African Christian than an Albanian or Bosnian Muslim any day, even if the latter are native white Europeans.