Nato survives 70th birthday party smarting but intact
The defence alliance’s underlying tensions are unlikely to vanish
04 December 2019 - 20:59
London — Western defence alliance Nato’s 70th turned out to be less like a birthday party and more a Thanksgiving dinner for a large dysfunctional family: not all of them got on, a few snide remarks were made, but in the end everyone seemed to accept they are stuck with each other.
After a tumultuous build-up in which French President Emmanuel Macron had warned that the alliance might not reach its 75th anniversary intact, and Turkey threatened to hold a key planning document hostage, even US President Donald Trump came to Nato’s defence..
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