ANALYSE – NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, put the key question of the Sino-Russian alliance on the table that Washington tried to avoid without success.
A few days ago in the New York Timesthe secretary general of NATO, Mark Rutte, made a properly catastrophic hypothesis: “Let’s not be naivehe launched with a rare frankness. If Xi Jinping attacked Taiwan, he would make sure to give a phone call first to his very junior partner Vladimir Putin, who lives in Moscow, to say to him: “Hey, I will do it, and I need you to keep them busy in Europe by attacking the territory of NATO.” »
With this nightmarish scenario, Rutte brought back the spectrum of the concomitance of a major Sino-Russian attack on the democratic West on the two European and Asian theaters. The idea is not new but what is so that it is explicitly exposed by a senior official of the Atlantic Alliance. In the wake of Rutte, many experts noted the plausible character of the scenario. If China decided to “reunite” Taiwan by force, the axis of the powers …
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