The Foreign Policy Survey: Greece top candidate to be kicked out of the alliance
In
advance of the May 20-21 summit of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization in Chicago, Foreign Policy and the Atlantic Council asked
dozens of experts about the role of the alliance today. Heads of state,
ministers of defense and foreign affairs, intelligence officers, and
current and former members of U.S. Congress were among the respondents
who answered our call. Although none of them thought NATO should cease
to exist or that the United States would be better off leaving the
alliance, they were less certain about whether NATO can adapt to a
changing geopolitical and military landscape — and just who will foot
the bill for future operations.
They rated Greece, currently struggling
to repay its crushing debt load, the top candidate to be kicked out of
the alliance, exhibited deep divides on how to handle a troubled
relationship with Russia, predicted that NATO would be unable to pull
off another Libya-style intervention three years from now, and
overwhelmingly viewed the Afghan mission as a failure.
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