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The war mood in Madrid
Nato’s summit in Spain is ramping up the rhetoric of confrontation, in developments that should set alarm bells ringing across the left, says CHRIS NINEHAM
Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg (left) and US President Joe Biden speak before attending a round table meeting at a Nato summit in Madrid, Spain
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NATO’s Madrid conference feels like a war summit. Despite recent statements from Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and from Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg himself that the war in Ukraine would have to end in negotiations, the mood has changed.
In Madrid there has been no talk of diplomacy, no discussion of moves to peace, only preparations for war.
Every summit announces a “strategic concept.” This time the conference really marks a historic reshaping of the West’s military posture.
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