Ageing is a natural process, but some age faster due to a variety of reasons including ill health, lack of good nutrition and troublesome children who raise their blood pressure. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation established primarily to counter the defunct Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has aged quite fast due to some of these reasons.
It is due to NATO’s dementia that it has difficulty completing normal tasks like bringing its grandchildren who joined ISIS, home from Syria, Iraq and Turkey. Erdogan seemed unperturbed. He threatened to oppose a NATO plan to defend Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in the event of a Russian attack unless other members accept his terrorist label of the Kurds and join in caging them.Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, amongst other NATO leaders were caught on camera making fun of Trump, whom Johnson handled like a disaster waiting to happen.
At the meeting, Johnson who seemed to have avoided close meetings with Trump, told his guests: “As long as we stand together, no-one can hope to defeat us.” The reality however, is that the greatest challenges of NATO are within; its defeat may be more of an implosion.