Macron, Who Called NATO Brain Dead, Warns of End to G-20

Macron speaks during the opening plenary session at the G-20 summit in South Africa.Photographer: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Emmanuel Macron has a penchant for predicting the end of eras.

Back in 2019, years before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it was the pronouncement that NATO was effectively brain dead. Indeed the post-war military alliance has struggled to rise to the occasion.