Political differences are putting NATO under strain, but all parties must realize that the transatlantic union “makes us safer,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says.
Back in 1952, Lord Hastings Ismay, the very first secretary general of the Alliance, predicted “that there will be persistent efforts to drive a wedge between us” and “that we shall have our little quarrels,” the NATO chief wrote in a column for The Guardian titled “Europe and North America need to stay united – now more than ever,”
