The American-led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, was founded in April 1949. As an imperialist military alliance it was seen as a clear threat to peace in Europe by the Soviet Union. In response when West Germany joined a few years later the Warsaw Pact was established, to counter the new threat in May 1955. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union the Warsaw Pact was dissolved in February 1991. NATO, however, continued to exist. 

　　And without the Warsaw Pact to hold it to account NATO soon revealed its true purpose. In spite of assurances given to the new neo-liberal regime in Moscow it acted quickly with armed aggression against Yugoslavia followed by Afghanistan and Libya. The alliance was expanded up to Russia’s border. Yugoslavia was destroyed by the now familiar tactic of fermenting conflict as an excuse to send in the bombers. The Chinese embassy in Belgrade was deliberately attacked. NATO attempted to take over Georgia but by this time Russia had woken up and the plot failed. Today, the new NATO crime is Project Ukraine.

　　NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine, which had been planned in the 1990s and commenced in February 2014, is its latest act of aggression. Power was seized in a coup by the pro-Western bourgeoisie allied with neo-fascists and criminal elements. Pyotr Simonenko of the Communist Party of Ukraine said “it was through these forces that the USA unleashed a fratricidal civil war against the citizens of Donbas who are upholding their constitutional rights and freedoms”. Opposition parties are banned, their leaders imprisoned and trade unionists have been murdered. 

　　Project Ukraine has four principal objectives. Firstly, to weaken and destabilise Russia with the aim of regime change. Secondly, to expand NATO up to Russia’s border and gain full military control of the Black Sea. Thirdly, to steal the minerals and rich fertile soil areas that were once the bread basket of the USSR. Fourthly, to dominate the region by expanding the malignant control of the EU. Project Ukraine is failing as Russia continues to win the war of attrition. The tragic conflict, like all of NATO’s other adventures, has destroyed a country and led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. 

　　NATO has just held its 75th Anniversary summit in Washington. Sustained by hate, fear, greed and hysteria, the aggressive organisation fans confrontation and sabotages peace. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, one of its few Western critics, has said that NATO should focus on peace rather than engage in wars. Russian commentators have noted that the USA and its allies are mobilising maximum resources to preserve their collapsing hegemony. NATO preaches security, freedom and human rights while causing death and destruction on a large scale.

　　The 75th NATO conference was itself a public relations debacle. President Biden introduced President Zelensky as President Putin. The Turkish President, Recep Erdoğan, made strong criticism of Biden’s role in the Gaza conflict and blasted US complicity in war crimes in regard to the murder of civilians and the targeting of hospitals and aid centres with US-supplied weapons. He called for sanctions against Israel and an immediate halt to the genocide taking place. As expected, no peace proposals were adopted at the summit. The gathering of almost all clowns, lame ducks, failed politicians and neo-con war mongers enabled Europe’s most boring and incompetent so-called leaders to bond and agree to promote and finance more wars.

　　China, unlike NATO, has put forward its own peace proposals to end the war in Ukraine. The 2021 Brussels NATO Summit communiqué demonstrated its hostility towards the People’s Republic by alleging systematic challenges to the “Rules (US Rules) Based International Order”. The policy was taken a step further at the Washington Summit with claims that Beijing is helping Russia with its special military operation in Ukraine. The Chinese foreign ministry has said in response that NATO was smearing China with fabricated disinformation. Under the Belt and Road Initiative China has invested billions of yuan in European infrastructure upgrades. US-led NATO is mulling the seizing of these investments. If they were foolish enough to take this option no-one would be prepared to invest in Europe and a number of Middle-Eastern countries may then withdraw all their money.

　　While ignoring the critical state of their own economies, the NATO allies of the USA continue to impose sanctions against China and Russia that are backfiring badly. They have also committed to spending 2.5 percent of their GDP on the military. 

　　Arms suppliers must be rubbing their hands with glee, particularly as no peace initiatives were forthcoming at the meeting. Germany, the industrial and economic powerhouse of Western Europe, is on a self-imposed road to de-industrialisation and economic collapse by following US diktat. A situation made worse by the terrorist attack on the Nord Stream pipelines that could not have taken place without the knowledge and convenience of NATO. This, in my book, makes NATO a terrorist organisation, which Britain should leave at once.

　　New threats against China, if carried out, would turn a crisis into a disaster for much of the EU. Sinister moves to expand NATO to the Pacific region have led China and Russia to take steps to deepen their strategic partnership. Claims by the Western media that China is a security threat have no basis in reality. China, unlike the USA, does not have 800 military bases round the world nor killed millions of people in endless wars. China seeks peace and international cooperation. 

　　The world is changing rapidly. US hegemony is being challenged and new emerging economies are increasingly using non-dollar currency payment exchange. NATO states remain in denial and are still stuck in a colonial mindset. They are no longer in a position to dominate as in the past. NATO is, however, still a serious threat to world peace as its actions continue to create tension and conflict with a constant risk of another world war. In 2020 Britain contributed £1,000 per person to NATO coffers to promote war. That money is urgently needed to save essential public services and repair a crumbling infrastructure. Say no to NATO now for a peaceful and prosperous new world for us all to enjoy.

　　Editor: Zhong Yao  LiuTingting

　　From:The New worker.26 July 2024