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Premier Boris Johnson has called for unity on the 70th anniversary of the creation of NATO and has defined the Alliance as "a great shield of solidarity that protects 29 countries and one billion people."

"If a motto defines NATO is this: all for one and one for all," said Johnson, paraphrasing The Three Musketeers of Alexander Dumas, trying to land the tensions that arose within the Alliance, which were evident. in the preambles of the summit by the hard exchanges between Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron and the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

"The fact that we live in peace today demonstrates the power of a simple premise in the heart of the Alliance," Johnson said at the opening of the three-hour summit at a luxury hotel in Watford, north London. "As long as we stay together, no one can expect to defeat us and therefore no one will start a war."

"The essence of NATO is contained in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty: if one is attacked, the others will go to their defense," Johnson added in the presence of the other 28 presidents, including the President of the acting Government Pedro Sanchez

Turkey's offensive on Kurdish positions in northern Syria has nevertheless created the biggest schism inside the Alliance since the Iraq war. French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated his statements about NATO's "brain death" for his passivity and US President Donald Trump called them "insulting."

Trump and Macron disagreed in public the previous day about the strategy before the Islamic State and the future of IS fighters in captivity. Trump also provoked the wrath of his European partners in advance by calling countries that have not raised their Defense spending to 2% (with special mention to Germany) and hinted that the bar should be raised to 4%.

The defense plan for the Baltic countries, cyber attacks and the challenge of China were other topics discussed at the Watford summit.

From the other side of the Atlantic, former Security Advisor John Bolton has warned in the meantime that, if Trump is re-elected, he could opt for "total isolationism" and get the United States out of NATO and other international alliances.

The summit's main course was marred by the diffusion of a video, recorded at the gala dinner at Buckingham Palace, in which Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apparently joked about Trump's verbal excesses during his rugged press conferences on Tuesday.

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