Nearly a month ago Emmanuel Macron caused a great scandal in international politics when he had called NATO “brain dead”, a month shortly before the London Meeting, where the leaders of the NATO’s member states came together to celebrate the 70th anniversary of NATO’s birth. — The aim of his provocative statements beyond Macron’s political ambitions was to give a new meaning for the NATO Meeting taking place in London, and to shift the political focus from the anniversary to the heated debates about the future of the Alliance, and Europe’s role in it.