2. August 2022 - The Unz Review, Philip Giraldi:
Policing the World Is a Full-Time Job
China pushes back against US-led military intervention in Asia
Every leader and top official now in power in the so-called Western World seems to have forgotten that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded in 1949 as an alliance that was ostensibly defensive in nature, intended to counter the expansion of Soviet style communism in Europe. That role continued to be the raison d’etre of the organization until communist governments themselves collapsed in both Russia and in the Eastern European states that collectively made up the Warsaw Pact during the 1990s. After that point, NATO no longer had any reason to exist at all as the alleged military threat posed by the Kremlin and its allies vanished virtually overnight.
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6. Juli 2022 - Newsweek, Pedro L. Gonzalez
NATO Has Become the Very Thing It Was Created to Fight
After more than a decade, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) updated its Strategic Concept to name China as a chief global security threat to our "values." In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian accused the alliance of promoting "conflict and confrontation."
Pedro L. Gonzalez is associate editor at Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture
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9. Juni 2022 - Indian Punchline, M. K. Bhadrakumar:
Creating cold war conditions in Asia isn’t easy
Only three weeks remain for the summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in Madrid, which is expected to unveil a new Strategic Concept aimed at redefining “the security challenges facing the Alliance and outline the political and military tasks that NATO will carry out to address them.”
The NATO and the European Union are in unison that the world has fundamentally changed in the past decade and strategic competition is rising, and security threats in Europe and Asia are now so deeply connected that the two continents become a “single operating system”.
The past week saw some “finishing touches” to the new cold war agenda — the US President Joe Biden hosting Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand; three tiny NATO countries in the Balkans blocking their air space to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to visit Serbia; and, Japan hosting the NATO Military Committee chief Rob Bauer.
September/Oktober 2014 - Foreign Affairs, John J. Mearsheimer:
Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault
The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin ccording to the prevailing wisdom in the West, the Ukraine crisis can be blamed almost entirely on Russian aggression. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the argument goes, annexed Crimea out of a long-standing desire to resuscitate the Soviet empire, and he may eventually go after the rest of Ukraine, as well as other countries in eastern Europe. In this view, the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014 merely provided a pretext for Putin’s decision to order Russian forces to seize part of Ukraine.
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1. Mai 2012 - Press-TV:
Initial phase of missile network in Europe complete
A senior American official has stated that Washington plans to announce the completion of the initial phase of the deployment of a US-backed missile network in Europe.
21. Mai 2011 - World Future Online:
Africa:
Battleground For NATO's 21st Century Strategic Concept
The war by major North Atlantic Treaty Organization member states against Libya is in its third month and has been conducted under the official auspices of NATO for the past fifty days.
According to the military bloc's daily online tally [1], Alliance military aircraft have flown over 7,200 missions and more than 2,800 combat flights since NATO inaugurated so-called Operation Unified Protector on March 31.
The world's only military alliance stands to match or exceed the 78-day duration of its air war against Yugoslavia in 1999 if not to deploy troops in Libya in what could expand into protracted combat and occupation roles like those in Afghanistan and adjoining nations where the Pentagon and NATO will mark the tenth anniversary of their invasion this October 7.
5. April 2009 - attac AG Globalisierung und Krieg:
NATO Summit
* Election of Anders Fogh Rasmussen places huge burden on relations with the Islamic world
* Glamorous summit used to legitimize dirty war in Afghanistan
* Our Alternative: Disband NATO, establish a world economy based on justice, combat climate change, no war for privileged access to natural resources.
"It's not the defense of common values, but bickering about influence in a cartel of interests that lies at the center of NATO's politics," says Gudrun Reiss, a peace activist for many years and spokeswoman of the Working Group on Globalisation and War of the German chapter of Attac. Attac, which pronounces itself favour of a world based on global justice and sustainable development, receives widespread support in Germany for many of its positions.
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