Macron Says Putin Revived ‘Brain-Dead’ NATO With Invasion
- French leader will hold a conference in Paris on June 19
- President says Ukraine needs credible security guarantees
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Emmanuel Macron said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reawakened the North Atlantic Treaty Organization almost four years after the French president branded the military alliance brain dead.
“In December 2019, I had harsh words for NATO, underlining at the time the divisions that existed at its heart between Turkey and several other powers by speaking of brain death,” Macron said in a speech at the GLOBSEC summit in Bratislava on Wednesday. “I could say today that Vladimir Putin has revived it with the worst of electroshocks.”