Was Emmanuel Macron wrong to have been right too soon?
It is not the first time, in any case, that proposals formulated at the wrong time have spoiled good intuitions or undermined the European cause that they were supposed to serve.
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This was already the case in November 2019, when the French president, in an interview with the British weekly
The Economist
, spoke of the
“brain death of NATO”
.
Basically, Emmanuel Macron was right.
At the time, the Atlantic Alliance was experiencing one of the greatest crises of its existence.
It was weakened by American disengagement for the benefit of Asia, by Trumpist disinterest in Europe and by the rebellion of one of its members, Turkey, which purchased defense systems from the Russia and attacked the Kurdish allies of the anti-Daesh coalition in Syria.
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However, the words of the French president, who only described a reality and pleaded for the development of European strategic autonomy...
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