Le Pen has played a waiting game for years as National Rally’s leader.

A waiting game to see what might happen but nothing has.

“The anxiety comes from the waiting game. We’ve known for four days that this hurricane is coming. I just want to get through it so I can stop feeling this way.”

"As there is no medication you can give for RSV, I felt helpless and it really was a waiting game of whether she would recover," she said.

“I think Russia is playing a waiting game and they’ve had the view that the U.S. and our partners are losing the will to support Ukraine over an extended time,” Ms. Yellen said.