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Amid the mounting refugee crisis caused by “NATO’s
non-stop campaign of overseas military misadventures”, Europeans are becoming
“increasingly wary of multiculturalism, neo-liberal reforms, austerity measures
- and now, it seems, even NATO itself,” according to American writer and
journalist Robert Bridge.
Bridge cites as an example a
recent raid conducted by the Polish military police with the
endorsement the country’s Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz on a
NATO-linked counterintelligence center in Warsaw as an example.
In his opinion piece for RT’s
website, Bridge quotes the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, according
to which, “Authorities entered the complex using a duplicate key and then
unceremoniously dismissed the director in absentia, Col. Krzysztof Dusza
and replaced him with Col. Robert Bala. Dozens of other bureaucrats
and assorted paper-shufflers were also relieved of their shadowy duties
on the spot.”
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This picture taken on December 18, 2015 shows sealed
entry to the NATO Counterintelligence Center of Excellence temporary seat in
Warsaw, Poland
“Nothing like this has happened in the
history of NATO, where a member state attacks a NATO facility,” former
Polish defense minister Tomasz Siemoniak commented on the incident
to reporters.
“After all, what would cause a
traditionally pro-Western country like Poland to ignore
constitutional due process and risk relations with Brussels, NATO —
not to mention the group’s top dog, Washington — by conducting a
crack of dawn, neo-Nazi-style raid?” Bridge therefore questions.
And then provides an answer:
“Those who were surprised
by Warsaw’s tough tactics fail to see which way the political winds
are blowing not just in Poland, but across the EU.”
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The author further elaborates that
“much of the winds of change howling through the streets
of Europe can be connected to the failure of US foreign policy,
and the repercussions that has had on the European status quo”.
Bridge then provides other examples of the
failed promises that President Obama so easily gave away to Europe back
in 2009 and the gloomy reality: “Guantanamo Bay detention facility is
still open for business, Libya is in dire straits, while the US
military is operating in Syria, albeit with little or no effect
on Islamic State, its proclaimed target”.
“Instead of being relieved from the
warmongering insanity of the Bush era, the world is still embroiled
knee-deep in crisis – and in new places (Libya, Syria and Pakistan)
that exploded on Obama’s watch, as well as in Russia, where the
Kremlin wised up fast to the fairy tale known as ‘reset’.”
The author, however, notes that the
“crises now enveloping the world are not limited to those of a
military nature: Ever since the 2008 Financial Crisis, the worst economic
setback since the Great Depression, Europe has been mired in dismal
economic growth and high unemployment, compounded by an insane influx
of millions of refugees that are only serving to erode Europe’s
financial prospects, to say nothing about demographics.”
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To cope with all the hardships,
“many once-proud, self-sufficient European countries (Spain, Portugal, Italy
and Greece, to name a few)” are forced to take on loans “from
the very same global bankers that wrecked these national economies in the
first place”.
“Ever since the terrorist
attacks of 9/11, Washington (and by extension, NATO) has only
delivered Europe a series of global military debacles that the Old World –
already suffering under the brutal dictate of IMF debt and World Bank
measures – can now ill afford. Now toss a few million desperate refugees
into the mix and you have awakened the raw spirit of right-wing
political parties – from Le Pen’s Front National in France
to Golden Dawn in Greece.”
“Personally, I can’t imagine that, in a situation
where nearly every US foreign policy initiative over the last 15 years has
resulted in utter chaos and catastrophe, the European people (still highly
educated despite biting austerity) will fail to correctly add
two-plus-two and conclude that NATO as an institution designed
to defend their interests is also failing them in dramatic fashion,”
Bridge therefore concludes.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160103/1032625158/europe-nato-patience.html#ixzz3wDuyVNQ3
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