The outgoing epileptic slab of Norwegian wooden posing as NATO Secretary-Normal placed on fairly a efficiency.
We’re the world. We’re the individuals. We’re NATO. And we’re comin’ to get ya – wherever you’re, whether or not you need it or not.
Name it the newest pop iteration of the “rules-based worldwide order” – duly christened at NATO’s 75th birthday in D.C.
Properly, the World Majority had already been warned – however brains below techno-feudalism are typically decreased to mush.
So a mild reminder is so as. This had already been said within the first paragraph of the Joint Declaration on EU-NATO Cooperation, issued on January 9, 2023:
“We are going to additional mobilize the mixed set of devices at our disposal, be they political, financial, or army, (italics mine) to pursue our frequent aims to the advantage of our one billion residents.”
Correction: barely a million, a part of the 0.1% plutocracy. Actually not one billion.
Minimize to the 2024 NATO Summit Declaration – clearly redacted, with stellar mediocrity, by the Individuals, with the opposite 31 assorted vassal members duly assenting.
So right here’s the primary 2024 NATO “strategic” trifecta:
- Further tens of billions of {dollars} in “help” to the upcoming rump Ukraine; the overwhelming majority of those funds will probably be slushing across the industrial-military cash laundering complicated.
- Forceful imposition of additional army spending on all members.
- Large hyping up of the “China risk”.
As for the theme music of the NATO 75 present, there are literally two. Aside from “China Risk” (closing credit), the opposite one (opening credit) is “Free Ukraine”. The lyrics go one thing like this: it appears like we’re at warfare in opposition to Russia in Ukraine, however don’t be fooled: NATO just isn’t a participant within the warfare.
Properly, they’re even establishing a NATO workplace in Kiev, however that’s simply to coordinate manufacturing for a Netflix warfare sequence.
These malignant authoritarians
The outgoing epileptic slab of Norwegian wooden posing as NATO Secretary-Normal – earlier than the arrival of his Dutch Gouda substitute – placed on fairly a efficiency. Highlights embody his fierce denunciation of “the rising alliance between Russia and its authoritarian pals in Asia”, as in “authoritarian leaders in Iran, North Korea and China”. These malignant entities “all need NATO to fail”. So there’s a lot work to do “with our pals within the Indo-Pacific”.
“Indo-Pacific” is a crude “rules-based worldwide order” invention. Nobody throughout Asia, anyplace, has ever used it; everybody refers to Asia-Pacific.
The joint declaration straight blames China for fueling Russian “aggression” in Ukraine: Beijing is described as a “decisive enabler” of the Kremlin’s “warfare effort”. NATO script writers even straight threaten China: China “can not allow the biggest warfare in Europe in current historical past with out this negatively impacting its pursuits and fame”.
To counter-act such malignity, NATO will develop its “partnerships” with “Indo-Pacific” states.
Even earlier than the summit declaration, the World Instances was already dropping their cool with these inanities: “Beneath the hype from the U.S. and NATO, it appears that evidently China has turn out to be the ‘key’ to the survival of Europe, controlling the destiny of the Russia-Ukraine battle like a ‘decisive energy.’”
The tawdry rhetorical fest in D.C. positively gained’t minimize it in Beijing: the Hegemon simply needs “to achieve extra deeply into Asia, attempting to ascertain an ‘Asia-Pacific NATO’ to assist obtain the U.S.’ ‘Indo-Pacific Technique.’”
Southeast Asia, through diplomatic channels, basically agrees: aside from purchased and paid for misguided Filipinos, nobody needs critical turbulence throughout Asia-Pacific like NATO has unleashed throughout Europe.
Zhou Bo, senior fellow at Tsinghua College’s Middle for Worldwide Safety and Technique and a retired PLA officer, additionally dismissed the Indo-Pacific shenanigans even earlier than the summit: we had a superb alternate about it late final yr on the Astana Discussion board in Kazakhstan.
No matter occurs, Exceptionalistan will stay on overdrive. NATO and Japan have agreed to ascertain a “extremely confidential safety info” line, across the clock. So rely on meek Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to reinforce Japan’s “pivotal position” within the constructing of an Asian NATO.
Everybody with a mind from Urumqi to Bangalore is aware of that the motto throughout Asia, for the Exceptionalists, is “As we speak Ukraine, Tomorrow Taiwan”. Absolutely the majority of ASEAN, and hopefully India, is not going to fall for it.
What is obvious is that the NATO at 75 circus is completely clueless and impervious to what occurred on the current SCO summit in Astana. Particularly relating to the SCO now positioned as a key node in bringing on a brand new, Eurasia-wide collective safety association.
As for Ukraine, as soon as once more Medvedev Unplugged, in inimitable type, delivered the Russian place:
“The Washington Summit Declaration of July 10 mentions ‘the irreversible path of Ukraine’ to NATO. For Russia, 2 doable methods of how this path ends are acceptable: both Ukraine disappears, or NATO does. Nonetheless higher, each.”
In parallel, China is conducting army workouts in Belarus only some days after Minsk formally grew to become a SCO member. Translation: neglect about NATO “increasing” to Asia when Beijing is already making it clear it is extremely a lot current in NATO’s alleged “yard”.
A declaration of warfare in opposition to Eurasia
Michael Hudson as soon as once more has reminded everybody with a mind that the operating NATO warmongering present has nothing to do with peaceable internationalism. It’s relatively about “a unipolar U.S. army alliance main towards army aggression and financial sanctions to isolate Russia and China. Or extra to the purpose, to isolate European and different allies from its former commerce and funding with Russia and China, making these allies extra depending on the US.”
The 2024 NATO declaration truly is a renewed declaration of warfare, hybrid and in any other case, in opposition to Eurasia – in addition to Afro-Eurasia (sure, there are guarantees of “partnerships” advancing all over the place from Africa to the Center East).
The Eurasia integration course of is about geoeconomic integration – together with, crucially, transportation corridors connecting, amongst different latitudes, northern Europe with West Asia.
For the Hegemon, that is the last word nightmare: Eurasia integration driving Western Europe away from the U.S. and stopping that perennial moist dream, the colonization of Russia.
So solely plan A would apply, with absolute ruthlessness: Washington – actually – bombed Russia-Germany integration (Nord Stream 1 and a couple of, and extra) and turned the vassal lands of frightened, discombobulated Europeans right into a probably very harmful place, proper beside a raging Sizzling Struggle.
So as soon as once more, let everybody return to that first paragraph of the January 2023 EU-NATO joint communiqué. That’s what we’re going through as we speak, mirrored on the title of my newest ebook, Eurasia v. NATOstan: NATO – in idea – totally mobilized, in army, political and financial phrases, to battle in opposition to any World Majority forces that will destabilize Imperial Hegemony.
