By Eric
Zuesse
Global
Research, July 11, 2016
Strategic
Culture Foundation 7 July 2016
Region: Europe, Russia and FSU
When
NATO was founded, that was done in the broader context of the US Marshall Plan,
and the entire US operation to unify the developed Atlantic countries of North
America and Europe, for a coming Cold War allegedly against communism, but
actually against Russia – the core country not only in the USSR but also in
Eastern Europe (the areas that Stalin’s forces had captured from Hitler’s
forces).
NATO was
founded with the North Atlantic
Treaty in Washington DC on 4 April 1949, and its famous
core is:
Article 5: The
Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or
North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently
they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of
the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of
the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked
by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such
action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and
maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
The Parties to
this Treaty reaffirm their faith in the purposes and principles of the Charter
of the United Nations and their desire to live in peace with all peoples and
all governments. They are determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage
and civilisation of their peoples, founded on the principles of democracy,
individual liberty and the rule of law. They seek to promote stability and
well-being in the North Atlantic area. They are resolved to unite their efforts
for collective defence and for the preservation of peace and security. They
therefore agree to this North Atlantic Treaty.
Consequently,
anything that would clearly be in violation of «the purposes and
principles of the Charter of the United Nations and their desire to live in
peace with all peoples and all governments», or of «the rule of
law», would clearly be in violation of the Treaty, no matter what anyone might
assert to the contrary. (As regards «the principles of democracy», that’s
a practical matter which might be able to be determined, in a particular case,
by means of polling the public in order to establish what the public in a given
country actually wants; and, as regards «individual liberty», that
is often the liberty of one faction against, and diminishing, the liberty of
some other faction(s), and so is devoid of real meaning and is propagandistic,
not actually substantive. Even the «rule of law» is subject to debate, but at
least that debate can be held publicly within the United Nations, and so isn’t
nearly as amorphous. Furthermore, as far as «individual liberty» is concerned,
the Soviet Union was a founding member of the UN and of its Security Council
with the veto-right which that entails, but was never based upon «individual
liberty»; and, so, whatever «rule of law» the UN has ever represented,
isn’t and wasn’t including «individual liberty»; therefore, by the preamble’s
having subjected the entire document of the NATO Treaty to «the
principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations», the
phrase«individual liberty» in the NATO Treaty isn’t merely
propagandistic – it’s actually vacuous.)
The NATO
Treaty, therefore, is, from its inception, a Treaty against Russia. It is not
really – and never was – a treaty against communism. The alliance’s ideological
excuse doesn’t hold, and never was anything more than propaganda for a military
alliance of America and its allies, against Russia and its allies.
Consequently, the Warsaw Pact had
to be created, on 14 May 1955, as an authentic defensive measure by Russia and
its allies. This had really nothing to do with ideology. Ideology was and is
only an excuse for war – in that case, for the Cold War. For example, a
stunningly honest documentary managed
to be broadcast in 1992 by the BBC, and showed that the US OSS-CIA had
begun America’s war against «communism» even at the very moments while WW II
was ending in 1945, by recruiting in Europe ‘former’ supporters of Hitler and
Mussolini, who organized «false flag» (designed-to-be-blamed-against-the-enemy)
terrorist attacks in their countries, which very successfully terrified
Europeans against ‘communism’ (i.e., against Russia and its allies). As one of
the testifiers in that video noted (at 6:45), «In 1945 the Second World
War ended and the Third World War started».
The
‘former’ fascists took up the cause against «communism» but actually against
Russia; it wasn’t democracy-versus-communism; it was fascists continuing – but
now under the ‘democratic’ banner – their war against Russia. This operation
was, until as late as 1990, entirely unknown to almost all democratically
elected government officials. The key mastermind behind it, the brilliant double-agent
Allen Dulles, managed to become officially appointed, by US President
Eisenhower in 1953, to lead the CIA. Originally, that
subversive-against-democracy element within the CIA had been only a minority
faction. Dulles had no qualms even about infiltrating outright Nazis into his
operation, and his operation gradually took over not only the US but its
allies. His key point man on that anti-democracy operation was James Angleton –
a rabid hater of Russians, who was as psychopathic an agent for America’s
aristocracy as was Dulles himself. But the CIA was only one of the broader
operation’s many tentacles, others soon were formed such as the Bilderberg
group. Then, the CIA financed the
start of the European Union, which was backed strongly by the Bilderbergers.
This was sold as democratic globalism, but it’s actually fascist globalism,
which is dictatorial in a much more intelligent way than Hitler and Mussolini
had tried to impose merely by armed force. It relies much more on the force
of deception –
force against the mind, instead of against the body.
Mikhail
Gorbachev failed to recognize this fact about NATO (its actual non-ideological,
pure conquest, orientation) in 1990, when he agreed and committed to the
dismemberment and end of Russia’s established system of alliances, without
there being any simultaneous mirror-image termination of America’s system of
alliances – including NATO. He wasn’t at all a strategic thinker, but instead
tried to respond in a decent way to the short-term demands upon him – such as
for immediate democracy. He was a deeply good man, and courageous too, but
unfortunately less intelligent than was his actual opponent at that key moment,
in 1990, George Herbert
Walker Bush, who was as psychopathic as Gorbachev was principled.
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