At 70, NATO is not a defensive alliance, but a declaration of total war.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) turns 70 on April 4th. After the catastrophe of World War II, the essential principles for building peace were consolidated in the Charter of the United Nations; however, NATO was established as the engine of the Western powers' war against Communism; after the Cold War ended, the bloc not only survived but expanded, promoting global militarization, threats, and aggression; its presence in Latin America reinforces this warning.
247 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) turns 70 on April 4th. After the catastrophe of World War II, the essential principles for building peace were consolidated in the Charter of the United Nations. However, NATO established itself as the engine of the Western powers' war against Communism. With the end of the Cold War, the bloc not only survives but expands, promoting global militarization, threats, and aggression. Its presence in Latin America reinforces this warning.
Journalist and academic in International Relations, Moara Crivelente, tells the story of this organization that transformed itself into the armed wing of imperialism, carrying out aggressions against peoples in various regions of the world.
"In 1949, twelve countries founded the North Atlantic alliance, a year after the United States enacted the European Recovery Program, the Marshall Plan, which would finance part of the post-war reconstruction efforts in Western Europe and promote trade between that part of the continent and the US. Critical studies argue that, in addition to not depending on US aid, Europe ended up subordinating its interests to those of the US, especially in the context of the Cold War. And this is reflected in NATO."
"The select club founded in 1949 now has 29 members, with the most recent addition of Montenegro. The country was part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, dissolved in 1992; subsequently, it formed, with Serbia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and then the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, dissolved in 2006. Montenegro's integration into NATO is part of the military bloc's eastward expansion, in an anachronistic and hysterical policy of confrontation. The main driver of this expansion is the scarecrow called "Russia," created by the inflammatory rhetoric, especially from the US and its local partners, to claim that Europe needs to build defenses against its neighbor—assuming an offensive posture "preventively," they claim. Nothing could be more illogical, if read so simplistically."