Le Long Au Revoir: Could Emmanuel Macron Pull France Out of NATO in a Bid To Recover Its Lost Glory? A New Report Offers Clues
The French president once described the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as ‘brain-dead.’ Could the writing at last be on the wall?
Leave it to the French to get things derrière-backwards and paint it as progress — particularly when it comes to affairs of state. How else to explain the defense minister’s decision to start his Middle East tour in Egypt, a country that is not at war, instead of one that is? Israel will be Sebastien Lecornu’s last stop, on Friday, before sashaying back to Paris.
The sclerotic French capital used to be a world capital, but has long been supplanted by the likes of Washington and, mon dieu, Brussels. And it is with a twinge of jealousy toward that schizophrenic but more relevant capital that a new report comes casting doubt on France’s future within the NATO military alliance.
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