Since de Gaulle, France has always had a special position within the Atlantic Alliance.
The report of the ten "wise men" who worked on the future of NATO only confirmed this.
It was a year ago.
Disappointed by Turkey's behavior in Libya, Syria and the Mediterranean, disappointed by NATO's inability to solve the problem, Emmanuel Macron had mentioned in an interview with
The Economist
,
"Nato's brain death"
.
The words chosen by the president, whom many within the Alliance had hardly liked, aimed at the softness of NATO's reactions to an ally who no longer respects its principles, the lack of internal consistency of the Alliance and its difficulty in projecting itself into the future to adapt to new threats, in particular the rise of China.
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