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February 15, 2020 Emmanuel Macron does not believe in the assurances of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the West "is winning". In his speech at the Munich security conference, the French president argued rather that "there is a weakening of the West", also as a consequence of the fact that for some years the United States has a policy that "provides for a certain level of withdrawal , to rethink its relationship with Europe "."Fifteen years ago we thought that our values were universal, that we would dominate the world in the long run ... and instead we are now shaken by other projects, by other values," he underlined, citing China and regional powers such as Russia and Turkey.
Macron then returned to his statements a few months ago when he called NATO "brain dead". His vision of European defense, he stressed, "is not a project against the Atlantic Alliance or an alternative" to NATO, but responds to the need to give more credibility to Europe through military force. "If we have no room for maneuver - he stressed - we have no credibility in terms of foreign policy".