Elected against the system, he remained, in certain fields, a disruptive president, who did not hesitate to overturn the table and to ignore diplomatic conventions. The Atlantic Alliance and Turkey regularly pay the price.
In November 2019, his formula on " brain death ""Of NATO had destabilized many allies. At the time, Emmanuel Macron regretted the silence of the Alliance about the Turkish military offensive against the Kurdish militias in Syria, allies of the West. It was also to protest against NATO's lack of reaction, when a French frigate was targeted by a Turkish ship on June 10, that he reused it, believing that the incident was news " demonstration ”of the“ brain death of NATO ”. Paris believes that the Alliance is too conciliatory with the Turkish side, when it should protest against its " strategy of tension " and its " historical and criminal responsibility " in the conflict in Libya.
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