NATO: Resolving International Tensions One Bomb at a Time – When Diplomacy Is a Thing of the Past – VP News

2024-07-10 23:07:37

The editorial board of the Financial Times struck again with an editorial that stands apart from the usual war rhetoric, saying: “A difficult 75th birthday for NATO. Efforts to protect the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from Trump appear to have failed“.

Here is a summary of what he wrote:

The recent Russian missile attack on Kiev and other Ukrainian cities was the backdrop to the Washington summit, which was organized to mark the 75th anniversary of NATO. The alliance, created in 1949 to ensure lasting peace in Europe, is still facing the biggest threat to European security since its inception.

The conflict in Ukraine is a significant challenge to the alliance and a confirmation of its necessity. However, the results of the summit may be disappointing. The dangers to NATO do not only come from outside: the Washington summit is overshadowed by concerns about the health of the 81-year-old President Joe Biden, which raises the possibility that Donald Trump will return to the White House. This situation could lead to a president in charge of a top NATO member who could reduce American aid to Ukraine, placing a greater burden on European members to ensure their own security.

“Protect NATO from Trump”!? But for whom does NATO act, for countries or for a certain minority?

If the goal of the Washington summit is to protect the alliance from Trump’s influence, it looks like it won’t be achieved. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has tried to get a multi-year funding package for military aid to Ukraine, but the allies have only agreed to 40 billion euros for next year.

Important steps will be taken to “NATO” aid and training to Ukraine, making more effective use of the alliance’s resources. NATO will coordinate the supply of arms and ammunition by the 57-nation Ramstein Group, and the new NATO military command in Wiesbaden, Germany will be the center for planning the training and equipping of Ukrainian troops. The United States and other countries have promised to provide Kiev with air defense systems and more advanced weapons.

However, on the central issue of Ukraine’s future NATO membership, the position remains unclear, not much different from last year’s statement: “The alliance will invite Kiev to join as soon as the allies agree and the conditions will be met. ” Ukraine’s membership is not on the agenda and could drag NATO into a nuclear conflict with Russia. However, it is now possible to issue an invitation that will put Kiev on the path to joining immediately after the end of the conflict .

NATO: Resolving International Tensions One Bomb at a Time – When Diplomacy Is a Thing of the Past

The editorial board of the Financial Times has presented a provocative analysis of the current state of NATO, highlighting a series of paradoxes. However, these paradoxes were effectively ignored, despite the fact that they emerged clearly throughout the speech.

It is surprising, indeed, that NATO hopes to be invited to Ukraine for joining immediately after the end of the conflict, when it is clear that one of the main causes of the conflict itself is precisely the intention to extend the Atlantic Alliance to to the borders of Russia. to thousands of kilometers. This approach is in stark contrast to the security guarantees promised to Russia by Gorbachev after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

It is incredible to see how NATO, a structure originally designed for defensive purposes, not only affects European politics but also in reality. Instead of preventing conflicts, NATO seems to be creating situations of conflict where none would exist, thus exacerbating tensions.

The Financial Times editorial, if accepted, could stimulate a vital and necessary debate on NATO’s role in European and global security. It is necessary to consider how an organization created to guarantee peace can, paradoxically, be the cause of new and dangerous international tensions.

It is also surprising that we are thinking of increasing the burden of weapons to solve the problem of war, precisely at a time when the latest policies in the West are showing clear social failures.

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side note:

In the above screenshot from another Financial Times article, it is indicated that the missile that hit the Kiev clinic contained Western electronic components. The anti-aircraft missile supplied to Kiev by the EU, which hit the hospital in an attempt to neutralize a Russian missile, uses Western components, according to the Financial Times. We need to understand where the news is: the missile was deflected, or they fell together, or it fell alone. But the attempt to perpetuate the story of the brutal killing of Russian children, while the West protects them, is all too clear.

At least 20 Palestinian civilians were killed and dozens injured yesterday in an Israeli airstrike near al-Awda school in the town of Abassan al-Kabirah, east of Khan Yunis. I don’t share the many images and videos I receive every day. The media ignores the massacre of civilians in Gaza, focusing instead on the Ukrainian air defense missile that fell on the hospital in Kiev. If the missile had been Russian, with 1000 kg of explosives, the damage and victims would have been much greater. However, the Western narrative is not concerned with this type of evidence. The catwalks have already been walked and the clothes have already been torn. The Ukrainian people do not deserve all this.