NATO Exercise Steadfast Defender 24
No to U.S./NATO War Preparations!
Dismantle NATO!
NATO announced that Exercise Steadfast Defender 24, which it
calls
"NATO's largest exercise in decades," began on January 24 and
will end
sometime in June. This live war game will involve 90,000 troops
from 31 NATO countries
including Canada, as well as Sweden which is about to join NATO.
This
is the main war game NATO has planned for this year. It consists
of national and
multinational large-scale live exercises conducted across
various
locations -- primarily in Finland, Estonia, Germany, Greece,
Hungary,
Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden and
the UK.
More than 50 naval vessels, including aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates and corvettes will be involved. In addition, fighter planes of various types, helicopters and a variety of drones will be deployed. More than 1,100 combat vehicles, including more than 150 tanks, 500 infantry fighting vehicles and 400 armoured personnel carriers will also be used.
Of note is that according to the U.S. Department of Defense, the "exercise is based on a fictitious [NATO Charter] Article 5 scenario 'triggered by a fictitious attack against the alliance launched by a near-peer adversary.'" Given the scale and locations where Steadfast Defender 24 will be carried out, it is clear that the aim is to threaten and intimidate Russia. In fact the U.S. Department of Defense notes: "Russia has launched the largest war in Europe since World War II, attacking neighbouring Ukraine. Since Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, NATO has strengthened defence and deterrence on the continent."
This
bravado on the part of U.S./NATO shows the utter crisis the
"alliance"
is mired in. It has been seen that the U.S. and NATO are having
trouble
even defending Ukraine in their proxy war against Russia despite
tens of
billions of dollars spent on armaments and training to defend
"democracy" and
the so-called "rules-based international order" in Ukraine. As
far as
"the rules based international order" is concerned, the whole
world can
see what that means in real terms in the U.S.-Israeli genocide
against
the Palestinian people. Despite suffering defeat in Afghanistan
and
other places, the
U.S./NATO, and Canada as part of it, persist in operating on the
basis
of "Might Makes Right" to impose their hegemony. This is counter
to
what the peoples of the world, including in the NATO countries,
are
striving for. All this disinformation by the NATO "alliance" is
aimed
at diverting the
movement of the world's peoples for peace.
Exercise Steadfast Defender 24 must be resolutely opposed by the peace-loving peoples of the U.S., Canada, Europe and the rest of the world. This massive exercise will do nothing to "protect" the peoples of the North Atlantic and Europe, and will only add to the tension and insecurity the peoples of the region are already feeling. What humanity needs more than anything else is peace and stability given that many regions of our world are engulfed in war and conflict.
Canadians must organize for an anti-war government that will take Canada out of NATO, all other aggressive military alliances and make Canada a zone for peace.
No to U.S./NATO Exercise Steadfast Defender 24!
Get Canada Out of NATO! Dismantle NATO!
Make Canada a Zone for Peace!
This article was published in
Volume 54
Number 13 - February 23, 2024
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2024/Articles/MS541311.HTM
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