NATO: Macron wants to block the British candidate for the General Secretariat. Brexit is to blame
French President Emmanuel Macron is working behind the scenes to prevent Defense Secretary Ben Wallace from becoming the next head of NATO due to the UK's exit from the European Union, as reported in the large British press.
Wallace was proposed as the next NATO secretary general after winning plaudits for his tough stance on Russia, but French officials have reportedly told NATO officials they want a figure from the EU, so as to make the militarily independent bloc and less dependent on Washington for its security.
Ben Wallace does not come from an EU member state,” a source told the Daily Telegraph.
Jens Stoltenberg, the former Norwegian prime minister who has led the alliance since 2014, is expected to step down in September, although US President Joe Biden has reportedly asked him to delay his departure until next spring. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has been named as a potential successor, but she doesn't seem to have Biden's backing. Denmark is a firmly NATO country, but it has conservative positions that the US Dems, now extremists, do not like
Ben Wallace, a former Scots Guards officer who served in Germany, Cyprus, Belize and Northern Ireland, is well respected within the alliance.
Germany and a majority of EU member states belonging to NATO support the French position, but the Netherlands and Poland could back a British candidate Wallace, a former Scots Guards officer who served in Germany, Cyprus, Belize and Ireland from the North, is widely respected within the alliance and has indicated an interest in the job.
If appointed, he would be the third former British defense secretary to hold the post, after Lord Carrington and Lord Robertson. But it appears it faces a concerted campaign by France to undermine its prospects.
Senior Tory MP Sir John Hayes told the Mail on Sunday: 'We have an excellent Defense Secretary who would make a very good NATO leader. The last to tell us what to do in matters of defense are the French”.
Fellow Tory MP Sir Julian Lewis said: "Preventing Ben Wallace from becoming NATO Secretary General, just because we have left the European Union, shows a deliberate lack of respect for the different roles of the two organizations and undermines the cohesion of the alliance".
The funny and incredible thing is that a theoretical alliance of dozens of countries, which claims to be the most powerful in the world, in the end is a kind of plaything of a politician who does not have the support of even 30% of the population of his country which, by the way, has a secondary position in the alliance. All for the cult of the EU fetish, which at this point reveals itself as the clear enemy of the Alliance.
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