Smash NATO Before it's too Late
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal
June 26, 2015 "Information
Clearing House"
- The North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) is a war-prone institution that poses the
biggest threat to world peace. Since the disappearance of the
Soviet Union, which turns out to be the greatest disaster for
the stability of the international system, NATO expansionism and
aggression is rampant. Although NATO was established to contain
the Soviet Union, in reality, however, it has always been a
complacent vehicle for U. S. hegemony.
After the Soviet break-up, NATO's illegal
expansion in Eastern Europe was relatively successful as long as
Russia kept quiet. President Vladimir Putin's speech at the
Munich Security Conference in 2007, more accurately a gathering
of Western war-hawks, should have rung the warning bells in the
West. Explicitly, Putin scorched the U. S. for its policy and
warned of NATO's expansionism eastward and the deployment of a
missile defense shield that was directed at Russia.
Despite Putin's admonition and the disaster NATO
has created in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, parts of
Africa and the Ukraine, this military alliance seems to have
learned nothing from its mistakes in the past. The voracity for
world domination by the U. S. Empire seems insatiable. It
doesn't make any difference who sits in the White House. U. S.
Presidents differ only in nuances.
The creation of a "constructive chaos" was a
special fad of the Bush-Warriors that heralded their vision of a
"New Middle East". To divide and dismember the states of the
region along religious and ethnic lines was first outlined by
Odeh Yinon in an article in the periodical "Kivunim"
(Direction) in 1982. Such a destruction would be in the Israeli
interest, writes the author. What the author proposed over 30
years ago, is now executed by the U. S. and Saudi Arabia across
the Middle East. It's only a matter of time until the latter
will also be affected by this political "disease".
So far, the intervention of the U. S. and its
European cronies across the Middle East was a "resounding
success". After 13 years, the strongest military alliance had to
leave Afghanistan defeated. There are still some tenth of
thousands military advisers in Afghanistan that "train" the
Afghan army, plus the well-paid mercenaries who keep the Western
puppets going, but the moment they leave this "democratic"
facade will collapse. The same holds true for Iraq or Libya.
U. S. Secretary of Defense, Ashton B. Carter,
complained the Iraqi army lacks a "will to fight" the Islamic
State, which the U. S. and its Arab friends have created in the
first place. Although the U. S. military has equipped and
trained the Iraqi army for the last four years, why aren’t they
able to defeat a bunch of Islamic fanatics? The same holds true
for the Afghan army. The Taliban just attacked the Afghan
Parliament. It's only a matter of time until the monstrous U. S.
embassy in the highly protected "Green Zone" in Bagdad will be
attacked. Where there's a will, there's a way, as the German
Chancellor stated with regard to the desolate situation in
Greece and the European Union.
At the meeting in Brussels on 24 June, NATO
decided on a huge military build-up on its Eastern flank. The
Eastern front-line states will be armed to their teeth with
military hardware and combat troops. The U. S. and the Brits
came also up with a "new" plan to beef up the
training of the Iraqi army, to instill into these Arab folks
a "will to fight", taking their U.S. American and Western
cronies as an example. The Brits and the U. S. have already sent
troops back into Iraq to start their training operation all over
again. According to the saying, the more the better, success
will come the more NATO troops participate in it. Afghanistan is
considered a "shining example".
Having accomplished the mission in Afghanistan
successfully, there is plenty of manpower available to be
transferred from Afghanistan to Iraq or the Ukraine. According
to the motto, The soldiers must be kept busy. While the
situation in Iraq is still out of control, the U. S. and its
allies are eager to create the next war theater by
"prepositioning" tanks and heavy artillery at the Russian border
in order to make the allies feel safe.
Why are Europeans and above all Germans so eager
to march with open eyes into a new Cold War with Russia? It
seems that U.S. power and pressure are so irresistible that the
politically ailing European Union has to go along with Ukrainian
putschists, although the imposed sanctions against Russia hurt
primarily Europeans. While the dogs of Western sanctions bark,
the Eurasian caravan moves on, which could be seen at the
St. Petersburg
International Economic Forum (SPIEF) from 18 to 20 June.
Remarkable was the meeting between Putin and the
Saudi defense minister and deputy crown prince Mohammad bin
Salman who is currently waging a war in Yemen. At the meeting
with President Obama at Camp David, the Saudis snubbed Obama by
sending only senior officials instead of King Salman. At the
meeting with the other Arab leaders and officials Obama praised
the "extraordinary friendship and relationship" between the U.
S. and Saudi Arabia. Perhaps the days of this special
relationship are numbered.
Dr. Ludwig
Watzal blogs at
http://between-the-lines-ludwig-watzal.blogspot.de
