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Yet Another NATO Punch-and-Judy Show

Every couple of years, the media treat us to the spectacle of an intramural fight within NATO. France--it's usually France--declares that it wants NATO member-states to contribute more funds to NATO (even more perhaps than the Americans are demanding). Why? Because, apparently, the Americans are losing interest in Europe and are fixated on something else. Today's it's China. A few years back it was the Middle East. Before that it was the Persian Gulf. Before that it was Central America. Before that it was Latin America. Therefore, says France--yes, it's usually France--the Europeans need to step up to the plate and impose a European dimension to NATO.

That's when it gets a little tricky. What exactly does France--yes, it's usually France--intend to do that NATO is not already doing? French leaders scratch their heads and ponder. Ah, they cry, what about Afghanistan? The Americans want to pull out and they didn't even inform us about it! OK, so the French want to stay on in Afghanistan?

OK, not a good suggestion. What about Africa? Ah, now we are on to something. That brings back memories of happier days: France's African colonies, not to mention the grandiose Francophone visions of de Gaulle, as well as the French military interventions in Africa during the 1970s under Giscard d'Estaing. And, sure enough, the French defense minister brings up intervention in the Sahel as the model for future European NATO interventions. I am sure everyone in Europe will be thrilled at the prospect, particularly as the reason for this intervention in the first place was the French-inspired NATO onslaught on Libya.

France wishes to continue to the great NATO tradition of using armed force to solve crises that it had itself created.

https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-summit-france-europe-florence-parly-defense/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1622537447

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