Nato 1.0 is dead. Long live Nato 2.0Every year about this time, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), the world's most powerful alliance for the past 77 years, holds a conference in Munich to examine its state of health. The one just past (Feb 13-15) was really a wake, but it played out more like the immortal Dead Parrot sketch from Monty Python, in which a customer (John Cleese) enters a pet shop with a cage containing a dead parrot (a Norwegian Blue) and says:

Source: Bangkok Post February 17, 2026 02:19 UTC