If NATO wouldn't have produced so much chaos and destruction around the world, one of its most characteristic propaganda ads would make you laugh
NATO,
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 70th anniversary, was met
with anti-NATO protests across the world, including Washington D.C.
On April 4th 1949, the alliance’s treaty was signed by twelve
organizations and today it has grown to 29 members.
Sharmini
Peries of the Real
News Network, spoke with Yves Engler on this
occasion.
As
Engler pointed out:
After
World War II, the Soviet Union was not a threat to Western Europe,
but indigenous, socialist, and Communist parties in Italy, in Greece,
in France, had a lot of support. And they would have won an election
in Italy, almost won 30 percent of the vote in France, and would have
took power in Greece if it wasn’t for US intervention.
What
NATO was designed to do was to blunt the European Left - and in the
words of Canada’s Foreign Minister, “a conquest from within.”
That was the objective of NATO, to stop a conquest within (i.e. a
Socialist or Communist taking power internally).
The
secondary reason for the creation of NATO and why it continues to
exist today is because NATO was designed to reinforce European
colonial power in Africa and Asia and bring it under a US-led
geopolitical umbrella and basically to have this alliance that brings
the leading capitalist countries together to dominate the world under
Washington’s lead. And that’s something that Washington has
continued to want to do around the world.
The end
of the Soviet Union didn’t end Washington’s desire to dominate
the world. And so NATO as a tool for that domination has really
continued on until today and in fact, become more belligerent since
the end of the Cold War.
Observe
one of the most characteristic NATO ads presented during the
interview above. The outrageously blatant propaganda here could be
easily considered a very bad joke.
So,
according to NATO that wants to justify its existence:
Today,
we face a much broader range of threats than in the past. To the
east, Russia has become more assertive with the illegal annexation of
Crimea and destabilization of eastern Ukraine, as well as its
military buildup close to NATO’s borders. During the Arab Spring,
NATO led an air campaign over Libya to protect civilians being
targeted by the Gaddafi dictatorship. NATO and its partners have
helped to prevent piracy off the Horn of Africa and are cooperating
to fight terrorism in the Mediterranean Sea. NATO has also supported
international efforts to stem illegal migration and human trafficking
in the Aegean Sea.
In only
a few lines you can find lies, double standards and deliberately
ignored facts in abundance. Brought to you by the most ruthless
neocolonial force, which produces chaos and destruction around the
planet for decades.
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