and criminality, but the answer some experts in france are saying, lies in better policing. while france has been burning, the war in ukraine has been grinding on and the russians do seem to be giving a little ground. there is a morale problem in the russian line. a lot of the russian soldiers don't want to be there. they're not particularly well fed or commanded or led. another darker side of ukraine's war, the deserters who pay off ukrainian officials and escape to romania. there will be, i think, a reckoning — who did what, who made money out of it, who fled, who fought, who gave their lives? and what will really happen to the looted objects in european museums? as these countries try to become the countries they want, they really want to be in the 21st century,