« THE ART OF WAR »
by
Manlio Dinucci
Two weeks ago, Washington crowned Juan
Guaidó President of Venezuela, although he had not even participated in the
presidential elections, and declared
President Maduro illegitimate, although he had been elected according to
law, and pre-announced his deportation to Guantánamo.
Last week, Washington announced the suspension
of the INF Treaty, blaming Russia for this decision, thus opening an even more
dangerous phase in the nuclear arms race.
This week Washington took a step further.
On 6 February, under US command, NATO expanded once again with the signature of
the protocol of adherence by North Macedonia as its 30th member.
We do not know what step Washington
intends to make next week, but we do know which direction it will be taking –
an increasingly rapid succession of acts of force by which the USA and the
other Western powers will attempt to hold on to unipolar predominance in a
world which is fast becoming multipolar.
This strategy – an expression not of
strength but of weakness, although no less dangerous – tramples on the most
elementary rules of international law. The emblematic case in point is the
adoption of new sanctions against Venezuela, with the « freeze » of 7
billion dollars belonging to the state oil company, with the declared purpose
of preventing Venezuela, the country which has the greatest oil reserves in the
world, from exporting oil.
Venezuela, as well as being one of the
seven countries in the world to have reserves of coltan, is also rich in gold,
with reserves estimated at more than 15,000 tonnes, used by the state to
procure strong currency with which to
buy medicines, food products, and other goods of basic necessity. To prevent
that, the US Treasury Department, together with the Ministers of Finance and
the governors of the central banks of the European Union and Japan, carried out
a secret operation of « international expropriation » (documented by
the daily Il Sole 24 Ore). It sequestered 31 tonnes of gold bars
belonging to the Venezuelan state – 14 tonnes were stored with the Bank of
England, and 17 more tonnes were transferred to that bank by the German
Deutsche Bank, which had received them in guarantee of a loan, entirely
reimbursed by Venezuela in strong currency. This was cold-faced theft, in the
style of that which in 2011 had led to the « freeze » of 150 billion
dollars of the sovereign funds of Libya (most of which has now disappeared) –
with the difference that the theft of Venezuelan gold had been implemented in
secret.
The aim is the same – the economic
strangulation of the target state in order to accelerate its collapse, by fomenting
interior opposition, and, if that is not enough, a military attack from the
exterior.
With the same contempt for the most
elementary rules of conduct in international
agreements, the United States and their allies accuse Russia of
violating the INF Treaty, without presenting the slightest proof, while ignoring the satellite photos broadcast by Moscow which prove that the United
States had begun to prepare the production of nuclear missiles forbidden by the
Treaty, on a site belonging to Raytheon, two years before they accused Russia
of violating the Treaty.
Finally, concerning the forthcoming
expansion of NATO, which will be signed tomorrow, we may remember that in 1990,
the day before the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, US Secretary of State James Baker assured the President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, that « NATO
will not expand even one inch to the East ». In twenty years, after having
demolished the Yugoslav Federation by acts of war, NATO has grown from 16 to 30
states, extending further and further East towards Russia.
il manifesto, February 02, 2019
Translator: Pete Kimberley
Source: Réseau Voltaire
F. W. Engdhal: Full-spectrum dominance also known as
full-spectrum superiority, is a military entity's achievement of control over
all dimensions of the battlespace, effectively possessing an overwhelming
diversity of resources in such areas as terrestrial, aerial, maritime,
subterranean, extraterrestrial, psychological, and bio- or cyber-technological
warfare.
Full spectrum dominance includes the
physical battlespace; air, surface and sub-surface as well as the
electromagnetic spectrum and information space. Control implies that freedom of
opposition force assets to exploit the battlespace is wholly constrained.
NO WAR NO NATO
VIDEO PLAYLIST
Manlio Dinucci
Geographer and geopolitical scientist. His latest books are: Laboratorio di geografia, Zanichelli 2014 ; Diario di viaggio, Zanichelli 2017 ; L’arte della guerra / Annali della strategia Usa/Nato 1990-2016, Zambon 2016, Guerra Nucleare. Il Giorno Prima 2017; Diario di guerra Asterios Editores 2018.
No comments:
Post a Comment