As president of France, Macron has been overseeing preparations for “high-intensity” warfare. At last week’s Nato summit, Macron claimed that Europe was now in a much better position to fend off Russia. Macron has played the decisive role in arguing that France needs to build a war economy, or economie de guerre. As president, Macron has championed fiscal austerity and cuts to public services. Whatever the precise calculations that are being made, far from keeper Europeans safer, Trump’s global war drive is only serving to make the world an even more dangerous place.