Posted on 11/07/2019 8:53:38 AM PST by yesthatjallen
French President Emmanuel Macron warned in a new interview that NATO is undergoing "brain death" due to a lack of commitment from its primary benefactor, the United States.
In an interview published Thursday with The Economist, Macron warned that the Trump administration's decision to conduct unilateral military actions such as the withdrawal of troops from Syria indicated that nations in the alliance were less committed to upholding longstanding mutual defense agreements.
"What we are currently experiencing is the brain death of NATO," Macron said.
"I don't know [whether Article Five remains in effect]," Macron said, referring to the collective defense agreement. "But what will Article Five mean tomorrow?”
NATO "only works if the guarantor of last resort functions as such," the French leader continued. "I'd argue that we should reassess the reality of what NATO is in the light of the commitment of the United States."
Macron's remarks are some of the harshest public criticism President Trump has faced from world leaders over his decision to remove U.S. forces from northern Syria ahead of a Turkish invasion of the region last month.
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It's interesting this interview appeared in 'The Economist'.
Is the demand for NATO now nothing more than propping-up European economies by having the US pay for their defense?
I think he’s right. We should just dissolve NATO.
That’s what happens when you hand Europe over to 3rd world savages with 82 IQ’s.
The vast majority of our Political/Media complex still has not figured out the Cold War is over. They keep preparing to fight the last war
Trump’s Fault!
(Couldn’t be Euroweenies unwillingness to defend themselves...)
Allies are only worth having when the relationship is receptacle, which NATO is not. NATO would be completely unable as well as unwilling to aid the US if we ever needed help. It is time to get rid of allies who are really not allies, they simply pull us down.
Plus, we generally don’t like Muslims anyway.
Trump should call him up and just it’s a great French idea, and go forward.
Leave the evil EU scum to the wolves.
Hey Macron, if you can’t put-up then shut-up.
If NATO countries won’t defend their own borders from invaders that is _our_ problem?
Let them bow to their new Muslim masters.
Pay your bills, you lazy Europeans, we are not footing the entire bill any more. Pay for your own defense you cheese eating surrender monkey.
The mouthpiece of the globalist NWO.
Now I know NATO has got to be dismantled.
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If we don’t get out of NATO we may some day be called up to make Europe safe for Islam!
Hey, Macaroon.. Why don’t you have your country take up the slack? Divert some of those euros from the third world knuckle draggers you’re inviting into your country to defending Afrope. NATO was formed to defend Western Europe, not North New Africa.
Maybe have a bake sale. Sell some moldy cheese, snails, and croissants.
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” due to a lack of commitment from its primary benefactor, the United States.”
Why dont these assholes just pay their fair share...
THEN bitch about “commitment”.
So without our money or our blood NATO is what, useless? Makes sense!
What does NATO have to do with Syria?
Is the demand for NATO now nothing more than propping-up European economies by having the US pay for their defense?
I think Macron has let a dirty little secret out of the bag here. NATO was never created to protect Western Europe from the big, bad Soviet Union. It was, in fact, created to give the U.S. a legitimate reason to place permanent bases in European countries and protect them from each other (especially Germany).
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