Pragmatic, playing games simply has to be put aside given the fact he lied to the world about all his aims during the last several weeks and months of negotiations by telling them he had no intention of going into ukraine. so most people believe and certainly here in europe, you can imagine that the level of fear and anxiety and alarm is incredibly high, given how close one is to the situation, and to it is something that s causing a huge amount of anxiety. neither the french government nor other nato leaders will talk about what they will do in response to this, if anything, it is considered something that is not ever discussed in public, that they are, you know, watching this situation very, very closely, but they don t immediately come out and say, oh, we re going to match this for that. that is not what s happening right now. in fact, president macron of france has had today a one hour and 30 minute call with vladimir putin where you can absolutely imagine that he brought this up ....