The French air force spent this week flying President Emmanuel Macron to Moscow and Kyiv. Macron’s pursuit of peace deserves praise but warrants Ukraine’s caution.

The German air force spent this week flying Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Washington. Scholz’s visit was designed to deflect criticism that Germany is an unreliable ally. For some reason, however, Scholz thought a good way to show his reliability would be to fail to support publicly a key test of said reliability. Standing alongside President Joe Biden at the White House, Scholz refused to support directly Biden’s pledge to shut down Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the event that Putin invades Ukraine.