December, Thursday 5th., 2019London fog: NATO strong, or empire in crisis?
December, Thursday 5th., 2019
NATO remains alive in order to glorify, to pump and puff and glitter-dust the dead Ottoman Empire, its DAESH international relatives and its 'malevolent devotees', while blood bathing all of the central Asia, Middle East and the Mediterranean area and Ukraine, etc., even when hypocritically supporting 'freedom and democracy'. Where the dead Ottoman Empire creators and its now wannabe rejuvenators are non other than the Vatican inhabiting inimical to Humanity entities. The Ottoman Empire was but a miserably decadent instrument in the molesting jesuitic hands, creating division and corruption and severe harm in the order of Humans. NATO remains alive just to enhance the 'works' of the strangely enriching little people in the likes of the Maltese, the Skopjean and some others, already suspected for economic and other heavier crimes, politicians and officials... Who could ever imagine that Hillary Clinton's/Obama's abomination activities in Libya, including the horrendous murder of the American Ambassador and many others, would end up in the nowadays Turkey-Libya dirty agreement, trying to usurp the Greek economic zone, half the Aegean and the Greek islands, while Turkey is steadily invading the Greek borders with secret agents, Sorosian NGO's and DAESH and Turkish soldiers, under the pretext of the 'refugee wave'?! Shame to all the international leaders who ignore the Truth and the Universal Laws, accepting possible harm for Greece and having already accepted deadly wounds to be produced in so many other countries! NATO, due to the vast amounts of money, science, expertise and high technology invested in it, as well as due to the excellent personnel employed in is ranks, must be spiritually and psychological and mentally upgraded and uplifted, in order to become truly useful to ALL Humanity!ASAP! Maria L. Pelekanaki
<< ... Lost in all the drama is the fact that no one at the London
summit has managed to articulate the purpose of NATO, 70 years after it
was founded to keep “the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down,”
in the words of the alliance’s first secretary-general. There was no
soul-searching at the summit, only bravado about the alliance’s
strength, unity and inevitable expansion to Africa and China – purely in
“self-defense,” of course, against those pesky foreigners who dared to resist being dominated by “democracy.”...>>
<<... The uncomfortable truth about NATO is that it has had no legitimate
purpose since the Cold War ended in 1989. The alliance has been seeking
for a raison d’etre ever since, trying to replace the UN in the Balkans,
bringing “democracy” to Libya, or feeding blood and treasure
into a bottomless pit of despair that is Afghanistan. Its leaders don’t
even believe their own hype about a threat from Russia, and are now
trying to present China as the next phantom menace...>>
<<... Far from some sort of benevolent global hegemony NATO’s ideologues
envisioned in the 1990s, the alliance is an empire in chaos. Against
that backdrop, it doesn’t really matter whether its military budget goes
up by $130 billion or $400 billion, when NATO’s actual usefulness to
any of its members is less than zero... >>
Officially, the NATO summit in London was a huge success and
alliance is strong and united. Yet even the mainstream media aren’t
buying this any more, seizing on high-school-style gossip to mock the
alliance leaders.
US President Donald Trump is playing the summit off as “great progress,” singling out the promised increases in military spending. “Thank you NATO,” he declared in a slick video tweet produced by the White House on Wednesday.
Meanwhile,
both Trump’s domestic critics and the hostile mainstream press were
busy hyping the president’s early departure as a sign he is mentally unstable, a thin-skinned “snowflake,” and “privately viewed with a mixture of mirth and alarm” (The Guardian).
Trump justified skipping the final press conference by saying “we did so many over the past two days,”
which is true enough. It was inevitable, however, that it would be
interpreted in the context of snide remarks by Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau at a Buckingham Palace reception on Tuesday.
Trump responded by calling Trudeau “two-faced” and the Canadian leader offered a slippery apology. The same press that called Trump a “puppet” or “pawn”
of Russia when he dared suggest the alliance was obsolete or useless,
now amplified the high-school atmosphere of the NATO summit.
It’s quite surprising, actually, that no one has described the viral Trudeau video as part of a “Russian disinformation op” to “sow discord” among the allies. Also on rt.com‘He’s two-faced’: Trump strikes back at Trudeau after clip of NATO leaders mocking him (VIDEO)Lost in all the drama is the fact that no one at the London
summit has managed to articulate the purpose of NATO, 70 years after it
was founded to keep “the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down,”
in the words of the alliance’s first secretary-general. There was no
soul-searching at the summit, only bravado about the alliance’s
strength, unity and inevitable expansion to Africa and China – purely in
“self-defense,” of course, against those pesky foreigners who dared to resist being dominated by “democracy.”
It
fell upon the hapless French President Emmanuel Macron to bring up the
dysfunctional character of NATO and point the fingers at Turkey and the
US as the culprits. All that did was get him a scolding by Germany’s
Angela Merkel and even from Trump, with zero allies coming to his defense. Some solidarity!
The uncomfortable truth about NATO is that it has had no legitimate
purpose since the Cold War ended in 1989. The alliance has been seeking
for a raison d’etre ever since, trying to replace the UN in the Balkans,
bringing “democracy” to Libya, or feeding blood and treasure
into a bottomless pit of despair that is Afghanistan. Its leaders don’t
even believe their own hype about a threat from Russia, and are now
trying to present China as the next phantom menace.
Those leaders,
by the way, face a rising crisis of legitimacy at home. Democrats are
trying to impeach Trump on trumped-up charges. Macron seems to harbor
delusions of Napoleonic grandeur on the world scale even as he looks
more like Louis XVI facing the echoes of 1789 in the ‘Yellow Vests’
revolt. Merkel’s party may not survive her retirement, as Germans push
back on her disastrous policies. In the UK, Brexit has touched off a
dirty war of media smear merchants easily rivaling that going on in the
US.
Far from some sort of benevolent global hegemony NATO’s
ideologues envisioned in the 1990s, the alliance is an empire in chaos.
Against that backdrop, it doesn’t really matter whether its military
budget goes up by $130 billion or $400 billion, when NATO’s actual
usefulness to any of its members is less than zero. By Nebojsa Malic, senior writer at RT Like this story? Share it with a friend!
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