In an era when the boundaries between war and daily life have grown dangerously thin, French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered sweeping protections for his nation's critical infrastructure, naming Russia as the force compelling this defensive turn. The directive — touching power, water, transport, and communications — marks a departure from the long post-Cold War assumption that essential civilian systems were beyond the reach of great-power aggression. It is both a practical measure and a philosophical reckoning: Europe is acknowledging, at the highest levels of state, that the infrastruc