The West is facing security threats unlike any since the end of the Cold War, but a dearth of leadership continues to plague the alliance.
Meanwhile, the United States' right-hand partner in NATO and beyond—the United Kingdom—is in the midst of a heated political campaign. Prime Minister Boris Johnson leads a minority government headed into a December 12 election. Although his Conservative Party still has a commanding lead in the polls, a record number of new voter registrations may upend prevailing expectations.
That leaves Macron. Only halfway through his first five-year term, the French president is alone among major alliance leaders in having a strong majority in his legislature. With a solid domestic political base, one might think he therefore has greater leeway to lead within NATO, but hisMacron's accusation that NATO is undergoing"brain death" created a stir, but within days his administration realized the strategic error it had made and attempted to patch up the diplomatic damage.
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