Post by dunki31 on Mar 4, 2024 9:19:33 GMT 5.5
NATO may be "the most successful alliance in history", as Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg claims. But it may also be on the verge of failure. After several tumultuous years during which US President Donald Trump has increasingly turned his back on NATO, tensions between France and Turkey have escalated sharply, showing just how fragile the alliance has become. The France-Turkey standoff began in mid-June when a French navy frigate under NATO command in the Mediterranean attempted to inspect a cargo ship suspected of violating the United Nations arms embargo on Libya.
France claimed that 3 Turkish Cambodia WhatsApp Number Data ships escorting the cargo ship were "extremely aggressive" towards its frigate, flashing their radar lights 3 times, a signal that indicated the danger of the situation degrading. Turkey rejected France's claim, stating that it was the French frigate that was harassing its ships. Whatever the case may have been, the fact is that two NATO allies were very close to exchanging fire between them, in the context of a NATO mission. And this is a new crisis for the Alliance, which could herald its dissolution.
Read also: Kuçova airbase is inaugurated tomorrow NATO massive submarine exercise in the Mediterranean Lord Hastings Ismail, NATO's first Secretary-General, once said that the Alliance's mission was to "keep the Russians out of Western Europe, the Americans in, and the Germans on their knees." Undoubtedly, the dynamics changed during the decades that followed, and especially the relationship with Germany. But the broad basis of cooperation—a common perceived threat, strong American leadership, and a sense of common purpose—remained the same. Without US leadership, the entire structure risks collapsing.
France claimed that 3 Turkish Cambodia WhatsApp Number Data ships escorting the cargo ship were "extremely aggressive" towards its frigate, flashing their radar lights 3 times, a signal that indicated the danger of the situation degrading. Turkey rejected France's claim, stating that it was the French frigate that was harassing its ships. Whatever the case may have been, the fact is that two NATO allies were very close to exchanging fire between them, in the context of a NATO mission. And this is a new crisis for the Alliance, which could herald its dissolution.
Read also: Kuçova airbase is inaugurated tomorrow NATO massive submarine exercise in the Mediterranean Lord Hastings Ismail, NATO's first Secretary-General, once said that the Alliance's mission was to "keep the Russians out of Western Europe, the Americans in, and the Germans on their knees." Undoubtedly, the dynamics changed during the decades that followed, and especially the relationship with Germany. But the broad basis of cooperation—a common perceived threat, strong American leadership, and a sense of common purpose—remained the same. Without US leadership, the entire structure risks collapsing.