Kramer has had a bad day at the office, someone should give him a stiff drink and tell him to calm down. When he goes back tomorrow those French tanks will either have broken down, gone on strike or (most likely) both.
Actually while I'm here I'll ask the resident French patriot if it's true the last batch of French employment statistics were indeed issued late as the civil servants responsible were on strike, complaining about the high levels of unemployment and the resulting extra work they had to do?
Yeah, the French tanks may be broken down and the crews gone on strike, but there will be enough bashed up panzer scrap metal around them for Raeder's Plan Z. (Sorry about the exaggeration, but I can't help it )
I assume that the resident French patriot is me, at least for now. So my answer to your question is sorry, I don't know more than you do, since I'm currently not living in France but in Canada for my university studies (I do wish to go to Harvard, but I ain't that good and ended up at UBC, Vancouver). However I can tell you that what you said is pretty likely.
BTW, instead of just a French patriot, I'd actually like to be called Promoter of French Grandeur or Promoter of French Awesomeness if that suits you.