“The shopkeepers and townspeople were remarkably the nastiest in all the European towns and cities we visited.”
That may be in French speaking Brussels and home of the EU. I didn’t find that to be the case in other areas of Belgium when I stay there for months at a time.
But you are right, their pacifism and political correctness will be the end of them. Antwerp had a Muslim mayor or council member who said his first allegiance is to Islam.
We were In Bruges They were pissed we were there. Big catholic celebration.
They make it up as they go along like libs do. The Muslims don’t