...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
as guarantor of Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...an security as the backlash to French President Emmanuel Macron’s criticism of the alliance rumbles on.
Ursula von der Leyen, the incoming European Commission president, became the latest major European leader to distance herself from a pugnacious Macron interview in which he said NATO was suffering "brain death" and that Europe could defend itself.
The French leader’s comments have caused a rift with Germany, with Chancellor Angela Merkel
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as
Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists...
breaking with her usual reserve to slap down unnecessary "sweeping judgements", and anger among eastern European allies who see NATO as a vital bulwark against Russian aggression.
The EU has launched various initiatives to make its military spending more coherent and efficient, but former German defense minister von der Leyen said the transatlantic alliance would remain responsible for European collective security "without any question."
"The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
will never be a military alliance. The European Union is completely different," she told news hounds after the European Parliament approved her new commission team.
"I see many, many fields where I do not see NATO but the European Union is called upon," she added, pointing to the bloc’s "huge tool box of instruments" including trade, development aid and humanitarian assistance.
In his Economist interview, Macron said allies should "reassess the reality of what NATO is" in light of US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
’s apparent ambivalence about the alliance, adding that he believed "Europe has the capacity to defend itself.”
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