Two years after Emmanuel Macron diagnosed his
"brain death",
NATO is faced with an existential choice. Succeeding Donald Trump, who had the temptation to throw this military club away from the old moons, Joe Biden wants to give it a new purpose, which is a bit of the same thing. Designed for the Cold War, the Atlantic Alliance has been looking for an enemy of its own since the end of the USSR. Vladimir Putin's Russia is still seen as a threat by its neighbors, from Georgia to the Baltic States and Ukraine. But, on the scale of American security issues, it represents more of a nuisance than a power. If NATO has no other object, its survival can only be justified at the cost of a strong reduction of wings.
The brief summit which brings together the thirty members of the Alliance this Monday will not settle the question of its future.
A study, scheduled to last one year, will be launched with the aim of formulating a
"new strategic concept"
for a
"NATO of
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