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NATO's Neocon Legacy
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| Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report. | |
| NATO's great new idea. | |
| Let's start a war with China. | |
| NATO's post-Cold War history is that of an organization far past its sell-by date. | |
| Desperate for a mission after the end of the Warsaw Pact, NATO in the late 1990s decided that it would become the muscle behind the militarization of human rights under the Clinton administration. | |
| Gone was the threat of global communism, which was used to justify NATO's 40-year run, so NATO reimagined itself as a band of armed Atlanticist superheroes. | |
| Wherever there was an injustice, as defined by Washington's neocons, NATO was ready with guns and bombs. | |
| The U.S. military-industrial complex could not have been happier. | |
| All the Beltway think tanks they lavishly fund finally hit on a sure winner to keep the money pipeline falling. | |
| It was always about money, not security. | |
| The test run for NATO as human rights superheroes was Yugoslavia in 1999. | |
| To everybody but NATO and its neocon handlers in DC and many European capitals, it was a horrific, unjustified disaster. | |
| 78 days of bombing a country that did not threaten NATO left many hundreds of civilians dead, the infrastructure destroyed, and a legacy of uranium-tipped ammunition to poison the landscape for generations to come. | |
| Just last week, tennis legend Novak Djugovich recalled what it felt like to flee his grandfather's home in the middle of the night as NATO bombs fell and destroyed it. | |
| What a horror. | |
| Then NATO got behind the overthrow of the Gaddafi government in Libya. | |
| The corporate press regurgitated the neocon lies that bombing the country, killing its people, and overthrowing its government would solve all of Libya's human rights problems. | |
| As could be predicted, NATO bombs did not solve Libya's problems, but made everything worse. | |
| Chaos, civil war, terrorism, slave markets, crushing poverty. | |
| No wonder Hillary Clinton, Obama, and the neocons don't want to talk about Libya these days. | |
| After a series of failures longer than we have space for here, DC-controlled NATO in 2014 decided to go all in and target Russia itself for regime change. | |
| First step was overthrowing the democratically elected Ukrainian government, which Victoria Newland and the rest of the neocons took care of. | |
| Next was the eight years of massive NATO military assistance to Ukraine's coup government, with the intent of fighting Russia. | |
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Nato's New Asia Office
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| Finally, it was the 2022 rejection of Russia's request to negotiate a European security agreement that would prevent NATO's armies circling its borders. | |
| Despite the mainstream media and U.S. government propaganda, NATO has been about as successful in Ukraine as it was in Libya. | |
| Hundreds of billions of dollars have been flushed away, with massive corruption documented by journalists like Seymour Hirsch and others. | |
| The only difference this time is that NATO's target, Russia, has nuclear weapons and views this proxy war as vital to its very existence. | |
| So now, despite its legacy of failure, NATO has decided to start a conflict with China, perhaps to take attention off its disaster in Ukraine. | |
| Last week, NATO announced that it will open its first ever Asia office in Japan. | |
| What next? | |
| NATO membership for Taiwan? | |
| Will Taiwan willingly serve as NATO's newest Ukraine, sacrificing itself to China in the name of blundering NATO's seemingly endless appetite for conflict? | |
| We can only hope that America will elect a president in 2024 who will finally end NATO's deadly world tour. | |