Commentary
Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating has launched another extraordinary spray at the federal government’s foreign policies.
In an apparently unsolicited written statement, Mr. Keating lambasted the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and its Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg while supporting President Emmanuel Macron’s opposition to the organisation expanding into Asia.
Condemning the “militarism of Europe,” Mr. Keating stated that “exporting that malicious poison to Asia would be akin to Asia welcoming the plague upon itself.”
“Of all the people on the international stage, the supreme fool among them is Jens Stoltenberg, the current Secretary-General of NATO,” added Keating. “Stoltenberg, by instinct and by policy, is simply an accident on its way to happen.”…