He is in a state of brain death, Emmanuel Macron diagnosed in November 2019. The presidency of Donald Trump also cast doubt on his survival. But no one euthanized him. Now, at 73 years of age, she is more alive than ever. Putin, with his invasion of Ukraine, has raised her from the dead, if she was ever in such a place. Daughter of the Atlantic Alliance, its political arm, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was born to contain the Soviet Union and protect the democracies of Western Europe from communism. Now, with Biden in the White House deepening the strategy outlined by Obama, it is about containing China, an autocracy like Putin's Russia. A new world order is at stake.
The Atlantic has ceased to be for a few years the main concern of the United States, leader of the longest military club in the world. Now it is the Indo-Pacific. For this reason, the organization points to a future that is more global than Atlantic. It has already moved closer to China's borders with its intervention in Afghanistan, abruptly ended by the United States last summer. And with its partner policy around the world, it has established links, in addition to that Central Asian country, with Australia, Colombia, Iraq, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, New Zealand and Pakistan. Four of these countries (Australia, South Korea, Japan and New Zealand) were invited in December 2020 to a ministerial meeting to "discuss global power relations and the rise of China" and its governance model.
Forty years after Spain's entry into NATO, Madrid hosts this week the NATO summit, which has thirty members that account for almost 50% of the world's GDP. And it does so to elaborate its strategic concept for the next ten years. Containing China, aligning the EU and NATO strategy, reinforcing the European defense pillar and creating a firewall against autocracies will surely be some of its objectives. Putin has paved the way. At the door of the septuagenarian alliance, which was on its way to becoming an old, comfortable and obsolete club, two more children called: Finland and Sweden.
