Opinion: Pentagon leak tests US dominance, en

Nabil Anas

Global Courant 2023-04-20 00:42:00

Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and now Jack Teixeira.

Three individuals charged with protecting the most sensitive and highest classification of US military secrets. Each, part of the military-industrial complex that projects US strength and power around the world. Yet all of them disregarded their sacred oath and duty to protect their nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and became the enemy themselves.

Now American prestige is on the line as it reels from another attack from within. The country’s resolve is once again tested as it faces both external and internal challenges. Less safe and more vulnerable.

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Speaking to the media, Macron stated: Europe’s great risk is that it will be caught up in crises that are not ours, preventing it from building its strategic autonomy. He continues: “The worst thing would be to think that we Europeans should become followers… and be guided by the American agenda…”

Given that France is the United States’ oldest global ally, these comments should raise alarm in the wake of another embarrassing intelligence nafu. The latest leak of US military secrets is another tremor in the foundations of an international order that has guided it for decades.

Macron’s remarks only fuel speculation about possible change in a rapidly changing environment that continues to cause concern and consternation.

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