Macron versus Scholz: Europe's dangerous kindergarten. Putin now knows at the latest that he has shattered the much-vaunted unity of the West.

If things go wrong, the cacophony on both sides of the Rhine gives him the idea of testing, as he continues his conquest, what the aggro-Europeans think their NATO support promise is worth. This threatens the security of all of us. Paris and Berlin don't need to point the finger at the arch-villain Trump. They have to approach each other if their dispute is not to become a fiasco.