Wednesday, May 11, 2016

After Yugoslavia NATO changed from a mutual defence alliance to an organisation for military aggression.

After the break up of the Soviet Union, a point in history when many in the west mistakenly thought Russia had ceased to be a major power and the USA unilaterally declared victory in the cold war, people around the world looked forward to an era of peace and prosperity. They could not have been more wrong, in fact even the most cursory examination of history will show that Russia has seldom been an aggressor.

The formation of The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation  (NATO) and the development of nuclear weapons that delivered 'mutually assured destruction' kept us safe we were told as thousands of millions (this was before inflation made millions into small change for governments) were poured into pointless exercises in one upmanship. But what was the real driver of it all? 

While that period from 1945 to 1990, with its arms race and the balls out politics of 'the space race' was sold to voters and taxpayers in the west as being necessary expenditure to counter the threat of Soviet expansionism, the Soviet Union has never had territorial ambitions. The establishment of satellite states around its borders after World War Two was really a reaction to yet another invasion of Russia by a European power.

Something happened in the years after the break up of the Soviet Union however that has made the world a more dangerous place now than at any time since 1938. Having served politicians well since 1945 as a defensive alliance, the USA dominated NATO changed and became a part of the US Neocon drive to achieve global dominance.

There's an interesting new publication from Global Research pinpointing the exact event that first revealed the new role for NATO, defined for it presumably by the US Shadow Government, that faceless cabal of financiers, corporate investors, academics and old political dynasties that really calls the shots in Washington. Here's a taster ...

The world is enveloped in a blanket of perpetual conflict. Invasions, occupation, illicit sanctions, and regime change have become currencies and orders of the day. One organization – the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – is repeatedly, and very controversially, involved in some form or another in many of these conflicts led by the US and its allies. NATO spawned from the Cold War. Its existence was justified by Washington and Western Bloc politicians as a guarantor against any Soviet and Eastern Bloc invasion of Western Europe, but all along the Alliance served to cement Washington’s influence in Europe and continue what was actually America’s post-World War II occupation of the European continent. In 1991 the raison d’ĂȘtre of the Soviet threat ended with the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War. Nevertheless NATO remains and continues to alarmingly expand eastward, antagonizing Russia and its ex-Soviet allies. China and Iran are also increasingly monitoring NATO’s moves as it comes into more frequent contact with them.

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According to the Reuters/Ipsos poll released earlier today, Donald Trump's support has surged since his competitors, too far behind in numbers of delegates won to have any realistic chance of overtaking him, quit the race and he is now statistically tied (the 1% difference is withing the margin of error) with Democrat Hillary Clinton among U.S. voters, in what Reuters describes as "a dramatic turnaround since he became the Republican party's presumptive presidential nominee."

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Surprisingly perhaps, according to deeper analysis of the poll, nearly half of Bernie Sanders' supporters are willing to cast their vote for Trump compared to only a quarter for Hillary, in what is shaping up as a presidential election in which it is not so important that the winning candidate will not be the one who is most liked, but least disliked.

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The results signal that a close fight is shaping up between the two White House rivals as the campaigns get very dirty. More importantly perhaps, it promises a lot of entertainment because the "debates" between Hillary and Trump (who reputedly hate each other) will surely break all political TV and media records, even as American society and global influence decay like Dracula on a sunny day.









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