The United States, like Turkey, can be called “NATO grave diggers” because these countries use the alliance in their own national interests, said Alexander Noah, deputy of the Bundestag, the official representative of the Left faction for foreign policy issues.
“NATO is in a state close to what Macron described. Alliance partners are increasingly talking about their own interests besides NATO. On the other hand, we see attempts to instrumentalize NATO in their own interests. Until recently, the United States exclusively pursued its interests, including through NATO, and Turkey has been doing this for several years. <…> NATO is eroding, and I can only welcome it”, – Noah told the agency.
According to the deputy, NATO “is always directed against Russia in its structure and self-consciousness”, and the alliance, in its opinion, is not capable of making the same contribution to stability in Eurasia as “a real rapprochement between Western Europe, the USA and Russia”.
“The verbal rhetorical exercises from Brussels that NATO should be involved in European security should be understood as a common place. You can gladly debate a transatlantic alliance, but there is no new content”, – Noah emphasized.
Earlier, the president of France in an interview with The Economist magazine said that the Alliance “completely lost coordination within the alliance, which can be described as“ brain death. ”German Chancellor Angela Merkel and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said they did not share the French leader’s harsh estimates of “death brain” alliance.
The Kremlin also responded to Macron’s statement. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that “it is not up to Moscow to decide,” because the Russian authorities are not “pathologists”.