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With the Ukrainian crisis, the precarious return to favor of NATO in Washington

2022-02-15T20:01:07.119Z


DECRYPTION - The Biden Administration has been particularly careful to keep NATO member states informed since the Ukrainian crisis.


The Ukrainian crisis has restored NATO's interest, for Washington.

After the distrust of the Trump years, who did not hide his contempt for an alliance he considered a group of profiteers having their defense financed by the United States, the Biden Administration had not succeeded in really reassuring the Western allies. .

After having reaffirmed, during the NATO summit in June 2021, the

"sacred commitment"

of the United States to the Atlantic Alliance, and described the organization as one of the most important strategic assets for the Americans, the new president American had plunged it a few weeks later into a new crisis during its calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Disdaining to consult his allies, and even to inform them of his decisions, Biden had treated with almost as much disdain as Trump the countries that had accompanied the United States in its Afghan expedition.

The malaise created by this debacle, the biggest known by NATO since its creation…

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Source: lefigaro

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