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Gustavo de Arístegui - "The Sahel is NATO's unfinished business"
The Spanish diplomat analysed the Atlantic Alliance Summit on the programme "De cara al mundo"
In the latest edition of "De cara al mundo", on Onda Madrid, we had the participation of Gustavo de Arístegui, diplomat and international analyst, who spoke in depth about the NATO summit held in Madrid.
What is your assessment of the latest NATO summit held in Madrid?
First of all, we must congratulate the government for organising a summit that the government of Mariano Rajoy achieved, remembering that it was the previous government that requested it and it was granted. In any case, this is a collective effort by a great many people, the national government, the Royal Court of His Majesty King Felipe VI, the protocol services, the security forces, including the Madrid Municipal Police, who surprised everyone with the magnificent arrangements organised around the summit, the Government Delegation in Madrid, the Guardia Civil, the police, the restaurateurs, I thought it was an excellent idea to hold a dinner in the Prado Museum, for me the best art gallery in the world, and so on. Beyond the purely logistical and material aspects, it is indeed a historic summit, the Strategic Concept makes a qualitative leap compared to Lisbon and we are at a crucial moment in a qualitative leap in terms of risks. Some of the most reputable analysts of history made a huge mistake when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union imploded, remember Francis Fukuyama's unfortunate work "The End of History", where nothing of the sort has been seen. How many times have we heard that puerile and counterproductive expression that has caused so many subsequent problems, which was the peace dividend, leading to the reduction of conventional forces. How many times have we heard international analysts, supposedly experts in geo-strategy, say that terrorism cannot be combated with fighter planes, let them explain to me how this is done in Syria or Afghanistan or on the border between Turkey and Syria. Surely they need to have a bit more of an idea.
Gustavo de Arístegui - "The Sahel is NATO's unfinished business"
The Spanish diplomat analysed the Atlantic Alliance Summit on the programme "De cara al mundo"
In the latest edition of "De cara al mundo", on Onda Madrid, we had the participation of Gustavo de Arístegui, diplomat and international analyst, who spoke in depth about the NATO summit held in Madrid.
What is your assessment of the latest NATO summit held in Madrid?
First of all, we must congratulate the government for organising a summit that the government of Mariano Rajoy achieved, remembering that it was the previous government that requested it and it was granted. In any case, this is a collective effort by a great many people, the national government, the Royal Court of His Majesty King Felipe VI, the protocol services, the security forces, including the Madrid Municipal Police, who surprised everyone with the magnificent arrangements organised around the summit, the Government Delegation in Madrid, the Guardia Civil, the police, the restaurateurs, I thought it was an excellent idea to hold a dinner in the Prado Museum, for me the best art gallery in the world, and so on. Beyond the purely logistical and material aspects, it is indeed a historic summit, the Strategic Concept makes a qualitative leap compared to Lisbon and we are at a crucial moment in a qualitative leap in terms of risks. Some of the most reputable analysts of history made a huge mistake when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union imploded, remember Francis Fukuyama's unfortunate work "The End of History", where nothing of the sort has been seen. How many times have we heard that puerile and counterproductive expression that has caused so many subsequent problems, which was the peace dividend, leading to the reduction of conventional forces. How many times have we heard international analysts, supposedly experts in geo-strategy, say that terrorism cannot be combated with fighter planes, let them explain to me how this is done in Syria or Afghanistan or on the border between Turkey and Syria. Surely they need to have a bit more of an idea.