I don’t think that’s an accurate representation.

Covid happened. It hit most countries like that. Now he’s trying to balance things again, against intense opposition

The root cause is not recent. The french have been overspending for decades. Look at the debt to GDP ratio over time.

France has had two choices for a long time; continue overspending or balance the budget. They keep picking overspending.

Like Macron or not, but at least he’s trying to balance the budget. If he ends up failing, they’ll have to try again later, from a worse starting point, or over time descend into economic collapse

There’s no free lunch

They are enemy psy op actors, whether they know it or not

I imagine the thought process is that it’s easier to do it now during the chaos than later when there’s some form of new government and organised defence.

They’re taking out capabilities so a new, possibly not Israel friendly government, won’t have them, and thus will be less of a threat.

It doesn’t make it ok of course.