Many of his European Partners in the alliance certainly dont agree though they call is words drastic and dangerous in an interview with the economist magazine the french president blamed the us saying its commitment to nato is weakening micro cited the u. S. Failure to consult it before pulling its forces out of Northern Syria he also questioned whether the alliance is still committed to collective defense and he called on europe to think of itself as a geopolitical power and ensure its in control of its destiny microns remarks come ahead of a summit in the u. K. Early next month to mark nato 70th anniversary u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei or says nato must change or risk irrelevance. They dont run is always the risk that it will become obsolete now because the partnership now because the political commitments for ever become i dont think is between in the transit and those commitments between our countries will ever become obsolete. But it does run that risk if it doesnt do the
French president raises eyebrows by describing nato is brain dead is the airlines weakening can europe create an alternative this is inside story. Hello welcome to the show i am sam is a than nato is experiencing brain death so says french president emanuel microloan many of his European Partners in the alliance certainly dont agree though they call is words drastic and dangerous in an interview with the economist magazine the french president blamed the us saying its commitment to nato is weakening microns cited the us failure to consult it before pulling its forces out of Northern Syria he also questioned whether the alliance is still committed to collective defense and he called on europe to think of itself as a geopolitical power and ensure its in control of its destiny microns remarks come ahead of a summit in the u. K. Early next month to mark nato 70th anniversary u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei or says nato must change or risk irrelevance. They dont run is always the risk
French president raises eyebrows by describing nato is brain dead is the alliance weakening can europe create an alternative this is inside story. Hello welcome to the show im sam is a than nato is experiencing brain death so says french president emanuel microloan many of his European Partners in the alliance certainly dont agree though they call is words drastic and dangerous in an interview with the economist magazine the french president blamed the us saying its commitment to nato is weakening microns cited the us failure to consult it before pulling its forces out of Northern Syria he also questioned whether the alliance is still committed to collective defense and he called on europe to think of itself as a geopolitical power and ensure its in control of its destiny microns remarks come ahead of a summit in the u. K. Early next month to mark nato 70th anniversary u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei or says nato must change or risk irrelevance. Ledo runs always the risk that it w
Becomes Prime Minister hell be faced with the Foreign Office furious at his perceived role in bringing down one of their own. Johnson himself assuming he becomes Prime Minister will pick the next ambassador to washington the question is will it be a neutral diplomat or a political appointment brecks it is taking yet more victims this time at the heart of government Lawrence Leigh aljazeera in london Alexander Vershbow is a former Us Ambassador to nato and russia and he was the deputy section general of nato from 2012 to 2016 he joins me now via skype from philadelphia thanks very much for being with us do you think in the end it was how much of an was it the issue of being frozen out by the Chinese Administration and how much was it that separate issue of not getting the support of johnson one of the potential future Prime Ministers. Well it looks to me that it was mainly the blackballing by President Trump and the administration which made it almost impossible for a bastard barracked
Support ukraine and how nato could define a path to membership, hosted by the atlanta counsel, this is about an hour. Good morning. I am greg myre, National Security correspondent with npr and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the special event in washington, the councils Eurasia Center is launching a new memo to the president with some Ambitious Goals involving ukraine. The memo assigned by 40 National Security figures and lays out two specific points, one, how to help ukraine win the war against russia and how to help bring ukraine into in nato. The Atlantic Council has assembled an allstar panel here whose members need only the briefest introductions. To my left is debra kagan, Senior Advisor to the senior counsels Eurasia Center and to her left, ambassador john hurts john herbst, former ambassador to ukraine. We have two panels that will join us virtually, one of them is ambassador Alexander Vershbow, former ambassador to russia and former deputy secretarygeneral to nato and i be