and it s such a key part of this what has been a solid nato, european coalition against vladimir putin. with a lot of wavering by the germans. the germans pulling back on a weapons promise to ukraine and not willing to commit to the energy sanctions that were so critical to undermining putin.om i think there are two big questions coming out of this election. the first is whether or not macron is going to be actually to unify france and create a solution or listen to the concerns of the electorate who did not vote for him or who abstained from this. that s a very big issue to do with the anger that the way the french government is currently run, but the french state is getting bigger and bigger. it s one of the biggest in the world in terms of gdp. it s still not making the voters happy. the second big question is who