NATO at 75: obsolete but still risking nuclear war seeking dragons to slay

 

NATO at 75: obsolete but still risking nuclear war seeking dragons to slay

President Biden basked in glory hosting the NATO Summit in D.C on its 75th anniversary last week.

He boasted that America is the world’s only indispensable nation leading the strong bulwark of NATO to preserve democracy, freedom and security around the world.

The opposite is true. NATO represents the greatest threat to peace in the 21st century. Its unhinged 17 yearlong effort to bring Ukraine into NATO would allow NATO nukes on Russia’s border to keep Russia out of the European political economy.

That eventually and inevitably triggered the Russian invasion of Ukraine 29 months ago to prevent just that. Ukraine is now a failed state with a shattered economy, hundreds of thousands dead and injured, millions displaced, all due to NATO expansion seeking to isolate Russia by establishing a Ukraine beachhead on Russia’s border.

But instead of negotiating a ceasefire that will protect the security interests of both countries, NATO’ s 75th brought more determination to make the war a zero sum game of NATO wins, Russia loses. That requires flinging hundreds of billions in military and economic aid to Kyiv, including long range US missiles and F-16 fighters that could make this local war spin out of control and go nuclear.

Not satisfied with provoking Russia, NATO continued its 4 yearlong pivot to Asia, ramping up its relations with US allies there to counter China. NATO blasted China for expanding its military and other assistance to Russia to help its war in Ukraine. Apparently, what’s good for the goose NATO, is not good for the gander China.

NATO officially became obsolete December 26, 1991 when the Soviet Union officially dissolved. In response to that dissolution and allowing Germany to reunify, the US promised not to expand NATO eastward toward Russia. But in among the worst and duplicitous foreign policy mistakes in American history, the US reneged, doubling NATO from 16 at the USSR collapse, to 32 today.

The Russian Bear, in waiting 31 years to push back against US/NATO duplicity, exercised infinitely greater patience to an existential threat to its national security than Uncle Sam ever would.

And Cold Warrior Biden, who recklessly keeps the nuclear pot boiling with NATO‘s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and threatening behavior toward China, remains clueless of the danger NATO poses to peoplekind.

While we should all hope NATO never sees another birthday, let’s further hope it’s not because NATO triggered nuclear Armageddon.

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL