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Why would they push back?
They're doing just fine
Eat a little crow, but still make more in a year than what the average person makes in ten
Any vassal should recognize that once their usefulness is up they will be consumed, and should fight to stop that
They should, but it kind of defeats the point of being a vassal
Now, if we were to get a Starscream-esque schemer in a position of power...
Honestly Denmark is full of schemers. Both Mette Frederiksen and the PM of foreign affairs are pretty dastardly
Like, stab a man dastardly or just hand-rubbing dastardly?
That's the same dastardly. They're heinous. Nefarious. Villainous even. Downright detestable. Sadly they're not very macchiavellan, because scheming against eurolibs is scheming on easymode
Why would they?
Their country becomes a shitheap, but they still get to be king of trash mountain, which is better for them than being dead after they resist and later commit suicide by shooting themselves twice in the head.
You could make the argument that they should for their people, but that presupposes that the leader of any imperial core power cares more about their own people