Why do we even care about France? Why does it make so much more noise than the UK and Germany, where tech is really flourishing? France has been in gentle decli

Why do we even care about France? Why does it make so much more noise than the UK and Germany, where tech is really flourishing? France has been in gentle decline since Napoleon. It hasn't won a war in 200 years. It has given up much of its power as a nation state to Brussels and Berlin. Its citizens are luddites and its elite have created an economy that crushes young people. I speak as someone who lived there for many years. France talks big, but little happens there.