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NATO, The World's Gendarme, A Military Mafia
By Fidel Castro Ruz
URL of this article:www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22074
Global Research, November 23, 2010 Granma International
Havana: Many people feel sickened on hearing the name of that
organization.
On Friday, November 19, 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal, the 28 members
of that bellicose institution engendered by the United States,
decided to create what they cynically describe as "the new NATO."
The institution emerged after World War II as an instrument of the
Cold War unleashed by imperialism on the Soviet Union, the country
which paid for the victory over Nazism with tens of millions of
lives and colossal destruction.
The United States mobilized against the USSR, together with a healthy
part of the European population, the extreme right and the Nazi-fascist
scum of Europe, full of hatred and prepared to squeeze every advantage
out of the errors committed by the very leaders of the USSR after
the death of Lenin.
The Soviet people, with great sacrifice, were able to maintain
nuclear parity and support the national liberation struggles of
many peoples against the efforts of European states to maintain the
colonial system imposed by force throughout the centuries; states
that were postwar allies of the yankee empire, which assumed command
of the counterrevolution worldwide.
In just 10 days less than two weeks world opinion has received
three great and unforgettable lessons: the G20, APEC and NATO
meetings in Seoul, Yokohama and Lisbon, in such a way that all
upstanding people who can read and write, and whose minds have not
been mutilated by the conditioned reflexes of imperialisms media
apparatus, can have a real idea of the problems currently affecting
humanity.
In Lisbon, not one word was uttered that could convey hope to the
billions of people enduring poverty, underdevelopment, insufficient
food, housing, health, education and employment.
On the contrary, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the vain character who
figures as secretary general of the NATO military mafia, declared
in the tone of a little Nazi fuehrer, that the "new strategic
concept" was in order "to act in any part of the world."
It was not for nothing that the government of Turkey was at the
point of vetoing his appointment when, in April 2009, Fogh Rasmussen
a neoliberal Dane in his position as prime minister of Denmark,
and using the pretext of freedom of the press, defended the authors
of serious offenses to the Prophet Mahoma, a figure respected by
all Muslim believers.
More than a few people in the world can recall the close relations
of cooperation between the Danish government and the Nazi "invaders"
during World War II.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a bird of prey hatched
in the skirts of yankee imperialism, and moreover equipped with
tactical nuclear weapons many times more destructive than the atom
bomb that erased the city of Hiroshima, has been committed by the
United States to the genocidal Afghanistan war, even more complex
than the Kosovo adventure and the war on Serbia, where its forces
massacred the city of Belgrade and were at the point of suffering
a disaster if the government of that country had remained firm,
instead of trusting in the institutions of European justice in the
Hague.
In one of its points, the inglorious Lisbon Declaration affirms in
a vague and abstract manner:
"In the strategically important Western Balkans region, democratic
values, regional cooperation and good neighborly relations are
important for lasting peace and stability."
"KFOR is moving towards a smaller, more flexible, deterrent presence."
Now?
Nor will Russia be able to forget it so easily: the real fact is
that when Yeltsin dismembered the USSR, the United States advanced
NATOs borders and its nuclear attack bases to the heart of Russia
from Europe and Asia.
Those new military installations also threatened the Peoples Republic
of China and other Asian countries.
When that took place in 1991, hundreds of SS-19s, SS-20s and other
powerful Soviet weapons could reach U.S. and NATO bases in Europe
in a matter of seconds. No NATO secretary general would have dared
to talk with the arrogance of Rasmussen.
The first agreement on limiting nuclear weapons was signed as early
as May 26, 1972, between President Richard Nixon of the United
States and Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union, with the aim of limiting the number of
anti-ballistic missiles (the ABM Treaty) and to defend certain
points against nuclear missiles.
In Vienna in 1979, Brezhnev and Carter signed new agreements known
as SALT II, but the U.S. Senate refused to ratify those agreements.
The new rearmament promoted by Reagan with the Strategic Defense
Initiative put en end to the SALT agreements.
The Siberian gas pipeline had already been blown up by the CIA.
Instead, a new agreement was signed in 1991 between Bush Sr. and
Gorbachev, five months before the collapse of the USSR. When that
event took place, the socialist bloc no longer existed. The countries
that the Red Army had liberated from Nazi occupation were not even
capable of maintaining their independence. Right-wing governments
that came to power moved into NATO with their arms and equipment
and fell into the hands of the United States. The German Democratic
Republic, which had made a great effort under the leadership of
Erich Honecker, could not overcome the ideological and consumerist
offensive launched from the capital itself, occupied by Western
troops.
As the virtual master of the world, the United States increased its
adventurist and warmongering policy.
Due to a well manipulated process, the USSR disintegrated. The coup
de grace was dealt it by Boris Yeltsin on December 8, 1991 when,
as president of the Russian Federation, he declared that the Soviet
Union had ceased to exist. On the 25th of that month, the red hammer
and sickle flag flying over the Kremlin was lowered.
A third agreement on strategic weapons was subsequently signed
between George W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin on January 3, 1993,
prohibiting the use of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM)
with multiple warheads. It was ratified by the U.S. Senate on January
26, 1993, by a margin of 87 votes to 4.
Russia inherited the science and technology of the USSR which in
spite of the war and enormous sacrifice was capable of creating a
military power on a level with that of the immense and rich yankee
empire the victory over fascism, the traditions, the culture and
the glories of the Russian people.
The war on Serbia, a Slavic nation, sunk its teeth hard into the
security of the Russian people, something that no government could
afford itself the luxury of ignoring.
The Russian Duma angered by the first Iraq war and that of Kosovo
in which NATO massacred the Serb people refused to ratify START
II and did not sign that agreement until the year 2000 and, in that
case, in an attempt to save the ABM treaty which, by that date, the
yankees werent interested in maintaining.
The United States is trying to use its enormous media resources to
maintain, deceive and confuse world public opinion.
The government of that country is going through a difficult stage
as a consequence of its military adventures. All the NATO countries
without exception are committed to the Afghanistan war, as are
various others in the world, whose peoples find odious and repugnant
the butchery in which rich and industrialized countries such as
Japan and Australia, and other Third World nations are involved in
to a greater or lesser degree.
What is the essence of the agreement approved in April of this year
by the United States and Russia? Both parties have committed
themselves to reducing the number of the strategic nuclear missiles
to 1,550. Not one word is being said about the nuclear missiles of
France, the United Kingdom and Israel, all of them capable of
striking Russia. Not one word has been said either about tactical
nuclear weapons, some of them with far more power than that which
erased the city of Hiroshima. There is no mention of the destructive
and lethal capacity of numerous conventional weapons, the radio-electric
and other weapons systems into which the United States is channeling
its growing military budget, superior to that of all the other
nations of the world put together. Both governments know, as many
others meeting there do, that a third world war would be the last.
What kind of illusions can the NATO members create? What is the
peace for humanity derived from that meeting? What benefit can
possibly be expected for the peoples of the Third World, and even
for the international economy?
They cannot even offer the hope that the world economic crisis can
be overcome, or how much longer any improvement would last. The
total public debt of the United States, not only that of central
government, but the rest of the countrys public and private
institutions, has already risen to a figure that is equal to the
world GDP of 2009, which amounted to $58 trillion. Did those meeting
in Lisbon maybe think to ask themselves where those fabulous resources
came from? Simply, from the economy of all the other nations in the
world, to which the United States handed over pieces of paper
converted into dollar bills which, for 40 years now, unilaterally
ceased having their backing in gold, and now that the value of that
metal is 40 times superior. That country still possesses its veto
within the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Why wasnt
that discussed in Portugal?
The hope of extracting U.S. troops, those of NATO and their allies
from Afghanistan, is an idyllic one. They will have to abandon that
country before the defeated hand over power to the Afghan resistance.
The United States own allies are beginning to acknowledge that
dozens of years could go by before that war is over; is NATO prepared
to remain there for all that time? Would the very citizens of each
one of the governments meeting there allow that? Not to forget that
a country with a very large population, Pakistan, shares a border
of colonial origin with Afghanistan and a none-too insignificant
percentage of its inhabitants.
I am not criticizing Medvedev, he is acting very well in trying to
limit the number of nuclear missiles pointing at his country. Barack
Obama cannot invent any justification whatsoever for that. It would
be laughable to imagine that that colossal and costly deployment
of the anti-missile nuclear shield is to protect Europe and Russia
from Iranian missiles proceeding from a country which does not even
possess a tactical nuclear weapon. Not even a childrens story book
could affirm that.
Obama has already admitted that his promise to withdraw U.S. soldiers
from Afghanistan could be delayed and that taxes from the wealthiest
contributors are to be immediately suspended. After the Nobel Prize
one would have to grant him the prize for the "greatest snake charmer
"ever to have existed.
Taking into account the George W. Bush autobiography, which has
already become a bestseller, and which some intelligent editor
drafted for him, why didnt they do him the honor of inviting him
to Lisbon? The extreme right, the "Tea Party" of Europe, would
doubtless have been happy.
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