India, Dec. 4 -- When he took office in January 2017, US President Donald Trump called the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( NATO ) "obsolete." But he hates all multinational institutions so that hardly counts. Just last month, however, France's President Emmanuel Macron said that the NATO alliance is "strategically brain-dead," which is closer to the truth. Yet the leaders of the alliance's 29 member countries will all be in the United Kingdom (UK) today to celebrate the 70th anniversary of NATO's foundation.
Brain-dead or just deeply confused, it continues to stumble around and receives frequent transfusions of cash. Why? Macron was furious last month because nobody in NATO could satisfactorily answer his big question: "Who is the ene...