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A former NATO employee accused Stoltenberg of a lack of long-term planning

October 3, 2025

Former senior NATO official Stephanie Babst said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg had no long-term strategy for the organization. This is reported by The Times newspaper, citing excerpts from the book by Babst Sehenden Auges (“Eyes Wide Open”), which will be published in Germany in May.

In the book, Babst writes that Stoltenberg and British Air Chief Marshal Stuart Peach, who led NATO’s Military Committee from 2018 to 2021, had little interest in planning research projects. overall strategy. According to her, the declarations on the “brain death” of NATO, made by French President Emmanuel Macron in 2019, were justified.

The former North Atlantic Alliance employee notes that NATO leadership spends a lot of time on side issues and that the actual results of the bloc’s work are “often very meager”.

Earlier, Brazilian President Luis Inacio da Silva said that America and the European Union did not hold negotiations at the start of the conflict in Ukraine, but rather engaged in confrontation, which was a mistake.

of former NATO officer accuses Stoltenberg of lack of long-term planning

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The Russia Desk leads The Eastern Herald's coverage of Russia, the war in Ukraine, NATO's eastern flank, and the post-Soviet space. The desk has reported continuously on the Russia-Ukraine conflict since its full-scale expansion in February 2022 and verifies through Kremlin statements, NATO briefings.

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