Macron turns against Nato& #39;s core mission: "Nato is an organisation of collective defense, against whom? … Is, as I hear sometimes, our enemy today Russia? Is it China? Is it the task of the Atlantic Alliance to designate them enemies? I don’t think so."
This is entirely in line with his speech to the ambassadors and the Economist interview. For Macron, Russia is not an enemy, not a threat. And tensions are just based on an misunderstanding, and the fact that Europe allowed itself to be seen by Russia as America& #39;s "Trojan horse".
Yet the entire raison d& #39;être of Nato in the last years has been defense and deterrence against Russia.
This is a mission -- defense and deterrence against Russia -- that at least half of Europe considers vital for its security. A mission that France used to support in the last years.
If only the French view of defense matters, and if other European countries& #39; interests and concerns are not even seen as legitimate, then the idea of a common European house is under threat.
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