I’m not quite as versed in history as the author so I’ll have to give my condensed version.
It appears the ants are being asked to save the grasshoppers and the ants aren’t happy about it.
"It appears the ants are being asked to save the grasshoppers and the ants aren’t happy about it."
Those poor little ants worked awfully hard to make those evil grasshoppers part of their kingdom in order to ensure that they wouldn't become the low cost producers on the Continent and threaten the socialist paradises in Northern Europe. They lived quite well on the low cost labor in Southern Europe for decades while passing out ever more "free" goodies to their fellow ants.
Once they taught the grasshoppers to be just like them they brought in immigrants to replace those Southern Europeans they had depended on. And now someone thinks it's all the fault of the grasshoppers rather than the socialist garbage that's ruled Northern Europe for seventy-five years?
Most Northern Europeans are anything but the industrious little ants they might once have been, that's for sure.
That’s one way of looking at it. Another is that the grasshoppers have been stealing from the ants, and the ants are saying “stop stealing” and the grasshoppers are saying “No.”