NATO Threatens Europe with Annihilation
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 20 Jun 2016
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service
18 Jun 2016 – NATO is supposed to be a defensive alliance, whose purpose is to “protect Europe from aggression”; but today it is an aggressive tool of the United States. Today NATO is threatening to drive Europe into an all-destroying thermonuclear war with Russia.
In recent years, participation in NATO has made European countries accomplices in US efforts to achieve global hegemony by means of military force, in violation of international law, and especially in violation of the UN Charter, the Nuremberg Principles.
Former UN Assistant Secretary General Hans Christof von Sponeck used the following words to express his opinion that NATO now violates the UN Charter and international law: “In the 1949 North Atlantic Treaty, the Charter of the United Nations was declared to be NATO’s legally binding framework. However, the United-Nations monopoly of the use of force, especially as specified in Article 51 of the Charter, was no longer accepted according to the 1999 NATO doctrine. NATO’s territorial scope, until then limited to the Euro-Atlantic region, was expanded by its members to include the whole world”
At present the United States government has forced the European members of NATO to participate in aggressive operations in connection with the coup which it carried out against the elected government of Ukraine. The hubris, and reckless irresponsibility of the US government in risking a catastrophic war with Russia is almost beyond belief.
According to The Guardian, June 16, 2016, “The largest war game in eastern Europe since the end of the cold war has started in Poland, as NATO and partner countries seek to mount a display of strength as a response to concerns about Russia’s assertiveness and actions.”
“The 10-day military exercise, involving 31,000 troops and thousands of vehicles from 24 countries, has been welcomed among NATO’s allies in the region, though defence experts warn that any mishap could prompt an offensive reaction from Moscow.”
“A defence attache at a European embassy in Warsaw said the “nightmare scenario” of the exercise, named Anaconda-2016, would be ‘a mishap, a miscalculation which the Russians construe, or choose to construe, as an offensive action’ ”.
Do the people of Europe really want to participate in the madness of aggression against Russia? Of course not! What about European leaders? Why don’t they follow the will of the people and free Europe from bondage to the United States? Have our leaders been bribed? Or have they been blackmailed through personal secrets, discovered by the long arm of NSA spying?
To save itself from the danger of nuclear annihilation, Europe must declare its independence from America, just as the United States once declared its independence from Britain.
Some suggestions for further reading:
http://www.countercurrents.org/chomsky130616.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44891.htm
https://www.sott.net/article/319923-War-is-a-racket-US-terrorizes-and-scams-Europe-through-NATO
http://www.makewarshistory.co.uk/?p=2415
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/06/16/pentagons-real-trategy-keeping-money-flowing
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44883.htm
http://www.countercurrents.org/gaist150616.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44852.htm
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery090414.htm
http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/06/the-illegality-of-NATO/
https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2015/03/30/europe-must-not-be-forced-into-a-nuclear-war-with-russia/
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery240615.htm
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D., who was part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize for their work in organizing the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, is a member of the TRANSCEND Network and Associate Professor Emeritus at the H.C. Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is chairman of both the Danish National Pugwash Group and the Danish Peace Academy and received his training in theoretical physics and theoretical chemistry at M.I.T., the University of Chicago and the University of London. He is the author of numerous books and articles both on scientific topics and on broader social questions. His most recent book is Civilization’s Crisis in the 21st Century (pdf).
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We do NOT need NATO or the “protection” or “nuclear umbrella” of the USA to protect us from the non-existent threat of Russia or Iran. Not only should NATO have been disbanded in 1991 as no longer needed, but the nuclear weapons the USA has stored in several NATO countries (often unwanted by the population, including Germany)are a danger to us all. The shameful destruction of Yugoslavia, the Kosovo chaos, the demonisation of Serbia, the interference in Afghanistan, Libya .. have shown the harm imposed by the military might when negotiation and cooperation are what is needed.
American foreign policy has been of divide and rule since Word War II. NATO under the US leadership has evidently moved away from its objective of safeguarding the interests of and bringing lasting peace to a region to terrorizing the world in the name of peace. America has no right to interfere in the personal affairs of Iran, Afghanistan, and now in the Middle East. I am surprised at the silence of the NATO countries leaders as well as their people over NATO’s categorical selection of individual countries and destroying them. The allied countries are keeping quiet, Turkey. Moreover, they are joining hands in order to uproot neighbours in the region. Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria and more are all going down. The worst examples of America’s highhandedness are Syria and Palestine. NATO must be disbanded as it is doing more harm than good.