The Art of War
NATO has already voted before us
Manlio Dinucci
There is a party that, even if it does not appear, takes part in the Italian
elections: the NATO Party. It is formed by a transversal majority, that
explicitly or tacitly supports Italy's membership of the Great Alliance under U.S.
command.
This explains why, at the height of the electoral campaign, the main parties
tacitly accepted the additional commitments undertaken by the government in the
meeting of 29 Nato ministers of Defence (for Italy Roberta Pinotti), on 14-15
February in Brussels.
The ministers first participated in the Nato Nuclear
Planning Group, chaired by the United States, whose decisions are always top
secret.
Then the ministers met at the level of North Atlantic
Council. Just two hours later, they announced important decisions (already
taken elsewhere) to "modernise the NATO Command Structure,
the backbone of our Alliance".
A new
Joint Force Command for the Atlantic will be set up, probably located in the United States, in
order to "protect sea lines of communication between North
America and Europe". Thus they invented the scenario of Russian
submarines that could sink merchant ships on transatlantic routes.
A new Command for logistics will be set up, probably
located in Germany, to "improve the movement in Europe of troops and
equipment essential to our collective defense". Thus they invented the
scenario of a NATO forced to defend itself from an aggressive Russia. On the
contrary, it is NATO that aggressively deploys its military forces along the
border with Russia. Additional land component commands will be established in
Europe to "further improve coordination and rapid response for our
forces".
NATO will also set up a new Cyber Operations Centre to "further strengthen our
defenses". It will be located at
the headquarters of Mons (Belgium), headed by the Supreme Allied Commander in
Europe, who always is a U.S. General appointed by the President of the United
States.
The ministers confirmed their commitment to increase military
spending. Over the last three years, the European allies and Canada increased it
by a total of $ 46 billion, but it is just the beginning. The goal is that
every member country reaches at least 2% of the GDP (the US spend 4%), so as to
have "more cash and therefore more military capabilities".
The European countries that have so far reached and
exceeded this quota are: Greece (2.32%), Estonia, Great Britain, Romania,
Poland. The military spending of the European Union must be complementary to that of NATO. This was
reiterated in a meeting with the EU foreign representative Federica Mogherini
Minister Pinotti confirmed that "Italy, respecting U.S.
demand, has begun to increase spending for Defence" and that "we will
continue on this road that is a road of responsibility".
The way is therefore traced. But this is not talked about in the electoral campaign. While on Italy's membership of the European Union the main parties have different positions, on the belonging of Italy to NATO are practically unanimous. This distorts the whole picture.
The way is therefore traced. But this is not talked about in the electoral campaign. While on Italy's membership of the European Union the main parties have different positions, on the belonging of Italy to NATO are practically unanimous. This distorts the whole picture.
We cannot discuss about the European Union while ignoring
that 21 out of the 27 EU countries (after Brexit), with about 90% of the
population of the Union, are members of NATO under U.S. command.
We cannot ignore the political and military consequences
- at the same time economic, social and cultural consequences - of the fact that
NATO is turning Europe into a battlefield against Russia, depicted as a
threatening enemy: the new "empire of evil" attacking "the
greatest democracy in the world" from the inside with its army of trolls.
(Il manifesto. 20 February 2018)
(Il manifesto. 20 February 2018)
NO WAR NO
NATO
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