All Out to Make Canada a Zone for Peace!
Preparations for NATO's 75th Anniversary Summit Underway
On January 31, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, repeating the war hysteria of the U.S. administration about investing more in defence to save the hegemony of the U.S. There he gave the U.S. rulers and their think tank "experts," a pep talk on the benefit that NATO- and U.S.-led wars and war hysteria has for the U.S. economy.
The expression of the "benefits for the U.S. economy" is as self-serving as it gets since every increase in payments to Ukraine and Israel and for "defence" comes from increasing the U.S. debt which currently stands at $34.14 trillion. When speaking to the Heritage Foundation, Stoltenberg noted that allies recently have agreed to purchase $120 billion worth of weapons from U.S. defence companies. "What Allies buy keeps American businesses strong. So NATO is a good deal for the United States," Stoltenberg said. President Biden has enthusiastically peddled the same position which is not only morally bankrupt given the use of the military for aggressive purposes. It also ignores that it is all borrowed money for which the people of the U.S. paid $659 billion in onerous interest in 2023, at the expense of social programs.
While Stoltenberg was in Washington, DC, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland was in Ukraine where she met with Ukraine's Minister for Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba. Kuleba said they discussed increased defence industry cooperation, the use of frozen Russian assets, Ukrainian President Zelensky's so-called "Peace Formula" which calls on Russia to surrender, and the preparations for the NATO Summit in Washington, DC, July 9-11, 2024.
As for Ukraine's status in NATO, the U.S. magazine Foreign Policy cited a dozen current and former U.S. officials on January 1, saying that both Ukraine and some of its most ardent backers, including Poland and the Baltic states, are pushing for Ukraine to be accepted into NATO at its upcoming Summit. However, thus far, the U.S. and Germany -- the two biggest providers of military aid to Ukraine -- continue to maintain that now is not the right time. Instead, they say, NATO countries should continue to focus on supplying Ukraine with weapons.
This article was published in
Volume 54 Number 13 - February 23, 2024
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