The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will meet in London in December to celebrate its 70th anniversary. Is it, as French President Emmanuel Macron has said, “brain dead,” and true that Europe can “no longer rely on America to defend NATO allies?”
The signs are ominous: recent actions by Turkey holding up NATO defense plans for Poland and the Baltic states, while France and Germany have been leading an effort to create a European alternative to NATO whose main attribute is to exclude the United States.
In February 2017, an article for the Italian think-tank Il Nodo di Gordio (The Gordian Knot) about NATO’s future titled “La NATO combatterà? E per cosa?” (Will NATO Fight, and for What?), made three main points that remain relevant today:
• NATO lacked key hardware and troops to defend Eastern Europe;
• NATO’s collective security system, based on Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, does not ensure that NATO will fight; and
• Some NATO members are unlikely to support the defense of Eastern European countries, especially the Baltic states and Poland.
Continua a leggere l’articolo di Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen su Jewish Policy Center: https://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/2019/12/02/nato-to-celebrate-a-difficult-70th-anniversary/
