Is it no-go for Nato?

American conservatives are increasingly sceptical over the transatlatlantic alliance and more concerned about addressing pressing domestic concerns

REID SMITH

BY DEFINITION, NATO IS AN ALLIANCE based on shared values. The founding charter’s preamble proclaims a treaty of states “determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage, and civilisation of their peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty, and the rule of law”. Ideally, this unity of purpose serves as the plaster that binds “efforts for collective defence” and the “preservation of peace and security”. This ordering principle, present at its creation, has remained a popular refrain throughout the alliance’s evolution. Of late, former President Biden served as its most zealous evangelist, regularly praising NATO as the key bulwark in a Manichean struggle between democracy and autocracy. In the former president’s telling, an alliance that was once regimented to deter Soviet aggression in Western Europe had matured into something grander.…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2025

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