It is not Putin who threatens Europe, it is the warmongers who refuse the peace that Donald Trump is trying to impose. Does Macron want a war to make us forget the shipwreck of his two five-year terms, which ruined France and plunged it into an inexorable decline? Last night, dressed in the garb of a warlord to restore his somewhat tarnished image, Macron delivered a performance that was as deceitful as it was grotesque, as if the Russian bear were at the gates of Paris. He likes to play on fears, dramatize, deceive people. It was a series of irresponsible lies and nonsense. But before answering him, here is what the French think of the strategy that our warmonger should adopt, instead of playing tough without having the means to do so.