Outgoing NATO Commander Calls the Alliance "A Linchpin for Peace"

by Stephen Lendman

US-dominated NATO is an imperial tool, a global killing machine, maintained for offense, not defense.

Its members and partners comprise nearly one-third of world nations. Exponential expansion is planned, Washington wanting NATO's footprint spread globally on every continent, wanting it used as an instrument for world conquest and domination.

Since its 78-day rape of Yugoslavia in 1999, US-controlled NATO ravaged and destroyed one country after another.

In his Washington Post op-ed, outgoing Alliance Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) General Philip Breedlove twisted reality, calling "the utility of the alliance…self-evident," adding:

It's "arguably the most critical linchpin supporting stability on the continent…(T)he United States absolutely needs…a NATO that is strong, resilient and united."

Fact: It's a US-dominated instrument for endless wars of aggression.

Fact: It's the greatest threat to world peace.

Fact: When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, its existence was no longer justified. 

Fact: Instead of disbanding, it expanded without justification. Stop NATO's Rick Rozoff said from the mid-1990s to 2005, it "evolved from a regional alliance based in Western Europe to a global force (for) undoing the entire post-World War II order of which the UN was the cornerstone."

It evolved into an instrument for advancing America's imperium, a force for endless wars, not peace.

It had nothing to do with helping "rebuild the continent from the ravages of WW II." Post-war Europe faced no threat from devastated Soviet Russia, needing many years to rebuild its war-shattered country.

After pledging no NATO eastward expansion post-1991, 10 former Warsaw Pact countries were added along with two other nations formed from the dismemberment of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

Breedlove twisted truth calling them liberated, transformed into "thriving democracies." He claimed NATO is critical to confront "an arc of instability and aggression threatening our interests and our allies stretching from the Arctic, through Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and across North Africa."

US-dominated NATO bears full responsibility. Its rage for war threatens world peace. The Alliance never was nor will it ever be "the centerpiece to peace and stability in Europe…an institution indispensable in today's dangerous world."

It's a global menace, an instrument for war, instability and chaos, a killing machine threatening humanity's survival.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. 

His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III."

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