To me it seems like macron is compensating for something rather than showing strength. Maybe in days of yore parades were useful but today they're merely resources wasted on nationalistic grandstanding or similar idiocy.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin.
Mikhail Bakunin.