En November 2019, President Emmanuel Macron horrified the Western community by declaring the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) “brain dead”in an interview with The Economiston the eve of an Atlantic Alliance summit. Touching such a monument, a pillar of the transatlantic link for seventy years, itself a pillar of the international order, was almost sacrilege. Chancellor Angela Merkel coldly expressed her disapproval, as she knew how. President Donald Trump called the remarks“insulting” and of “very dangerous” for France, because “no one needs NATO more than France”.
Does the United States need NATO? Six years later, this is rather the question that arises, at a time when the same President Trump, in master of the world mode, proclaims his desire to seize Greenland, a territory belonging to a NATO member, Denmark. Carrying out such a threat, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned, would mean “the end of NATO”.
In reality, Trump has no interest in getting rid of NATO, which allows him to maintain the military dependence of the Europeans and above all to fill the order books of the American defense industry. Simply, NATO according to Donald Trump is closer to another model of military alliance, that of the Warsaw Pact, confirming the hypothesis posed in February 2025, at the start of Trump’s second term, by Olivier Schmitt, professor at the Center for War Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, during a conference at the Sorbonne.
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