Paris is the site of a two-day meeting Monday and Tuesday of the Foreign Ministers of the G7 countries. European news sites like France 24 and EuroNews headlined it as “Rubio under pressure” to explain what the effects of GOP election losses will be. But this is probably just horsefeathers, considering that the European “war, war, war” powers are confronting President Trump’s attempt on Tuesday to play the mediator in seeking a “peace deal” for Russia and Ukraine with the United States.

France is insisting, in the words of its Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, that “Europe will be there” [in Abu Dhabi, at the U.S.-Russia-Ukraine mediated talks—pbg]. “Europeans will be represented, and France will be in Abu Dhabi to participate in these talks,” he said. Trump’s usual talk about “a very big deal” with Russia and Ukraine on ending the war, and reconstruction, has the Europeans on alert as usual, to stop it by any means that come to hand, especially larding Ukraine’s weapons bunkers with more interceptor rockets.