Ukraine, NATO in the Constitution

247, By Manlio Dinucci (*), with Resistance - The day after North Macedonia signed the protocol of accession to NATO, becoming its 30th member, Ukraine took an unprecedented step: it included in its Constitution a commitment to officially join NATO and simultaneously the European Union.

On February 7, at the suggestion of President Petro Poroshenko – the oligarch who enriched himself by plundering public property and who is once again a presidential candidate – the Kyiv parliament approved (by 334 votes to 35, with 16 abstentions) amendments to this effect in the Constitution.

The Preamble states "Ukraine's irreversible course towards Euro-Atlantic integration"; Articles 85 and 116 decree that a fundamental duty of parliament and government is "to achieve Ukraine's full membership in NATO and the European Union (EU)"; Article 102 stipulates that "the President of Ukraine is the guarantor of the State's strategic course towards achieving full membership in NATO and the EU".

The inclusion in the Ukrainian Constitution of the commitment to officially join NATO has very serious consequences.

Domestically, this choice alienates Ukraine's future, excluding any alternative, and effectively outlaws any party or person who opposes the "strategic course of the State." Even today, the Central Election Commission prohibits Petro Simonenko, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine, from participating in the presidential elections next March.

The credit for including in the Constitution the commitment to officially bring Ukraine into NATO belongs particularly to the Speaker of Parliament, Andriy Parubiy. He is a co-founder in 1991 of the Ukrainian National Socialist Party, modeled after Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party; head of the neo-Nazi paramilitary formations used in the 2014 Maidan Square coup, under the direction of the US and NATO, and in the Odessa massacre; head of the National Defense and Security Council which, with the Azov Battalion and other neo-Nazi units, attacks Ukrainian civilians of Russian nationality in the eastern part of the country and launches, with its squads, fierce punitive actions, looting of political headquarters and autos-da-fé, in true Nazi style.

On the international stage, it should be considered that Ukraine is already effectively a NATO partner country: for example, the Azov Battalion, whose Nazi-like mark is represented by the emblem copied from the Nazi SS, has been transformed into a special operations regiment, equipped with armored vehicles and trained by US instructors from the 173rd Airborne Division, transferred to Ukraine from Vicenza, seconded by others belonging to NATO.

Since Russia is accused by NATO of illegally annexing Crimea and carrying out military actions against Ukraine, if Ukraine officially joins NATO, the other 30 members of the Alliance, based on Article 5, must "assist the attacked party or parties by taking immediately, individually and in agreement with the other parties, such action as they deem necessary, including the use of armed force."

In other words, they should go to war against Russia.

Regarding these dangerous implications of the modification of the Ukrainian Constitution – behind which are certainly US and NATO strategists – a political and media silence has fallen over Europe. Even in the Italian parliament, which in 2017 established an agreement with the Ukrainian parliament, signed by Laura Boldrini and Andriy Parubiy: thus, cooperation is reinforced between the Italian Republic, born from the Resistance against Nazi-fascism, and a regime that created in Ukraine a situation analogous to that which led to the rise of fascism in the 1920s and Nazism in the 1930s.

(*) Journalist and geographer; originally published in Il Manifesto; translated by José Reinaldo Carvalho, editor of the page of Resistance