“What we are experiencing
is the brain death of NATO
.
This statement by Emmanuel Macron in the pages of
The Economist magazine in November 2019, Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary
General
of the North Atlantic Alliance, will probably never forget, as it seems absurd today.
At the time, it is true, the clashes in Syria between the United States and Turkey and the gradual exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union had weakened the institution which was painfully looking for a way out.
Like a good diplomat, Stoltenberg then bowed his head and attended as usual the numerous meetings, working groups and other symposiums that followed one another daily in Brussels.
The machine turns on itself, imperturbable.
In office since 2014, the former Norwegian Labor Prime Minister, a graduate in economics, ex-journalist and avowed fan of Bob Dylan, is just beginning his second and theoretically last four-year term as head…
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