French President Emmanuel Macron scrambled Sunday to cease a Russian invasion of Ukraine by arranging a doable summit between President Biden and Vladimir Putin. It’s exhausting to see what the Russian will settle for past concessions that may compromise NATO’s safety, and in the meantime Italy is already blinking on sanctions.

U.S. officers on the weekend Munich Safety Convention stored insisting how unified the trans-Atlantic alliance is within the face of Russian aggression. It’s nearly as if they’re attempting to persuade themselves as a lot as Mr. Putin, since they know the cracks that exist beneath the floor claims of resolve and unity.