NATO 2024 Summit in Washington, DC
Join in Actions to Say: Get Canada Out of NATO! Dismantle NATO!
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
The aggressive military alliance NATO is holding its
2024 summit in Washington, DC from July 9 to 11 on the occasion
of the 75th anniversary of its founding. Actions against NATO
will be taking place in Canada to express the demand of Canadians
for Canada to get out of NATO and for NATO to be dismantled. The
actions also oppose the U.S./NATO proxy war in Ukraine and oppose
stepped-up war spending and war preparations.
The largest actions will take place in Washington, DC where specific demands include: a negotiated peaceful resolution of the U.S./NATO proxy war in Ukraine against Russia; an end to the genocide being committed by NATO partner, the Zionist state of Israel; and for NATO to be disbanded.
The NATO webpage promoting the 2024 summit says that "32 NATO Allies will meet again in Washington, DC to make key decisions on how to continue to protect their 1 billion citizens as the world faces the most dangerous security environment since the Cold War." Besides its 32 members, NATO boasts that it has "partnerships" with more than 40 non-member countries and organizations, including the Zionist state of Israel.
The fact is that NATO's actions regularly threaten, endanger, maim and kill not only the 1 billion citizens it claims to protect, but also the other 7.1 billion people whose countries are not part of NATO. This is, of course, not mentioned.
NATO was founded in 1949 as a military and political instrument the U.S. required to cement the Cold War at the end of World War II as the Anglo-American imperialists set about dividing the world based on racist and anti-communist ideological considerations. Today, its aims continue to divide the world on the basis of racist, anti-communist aims which promote the U.S. imperialist striving for global hegemony espoused since the end of the Cold War in 1989-1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed, down to today. In the U.S. and elsewhere, NATO leaders talk about the U.S. as being the world leader, the superpower and the country responsible for world peace, thus excusing the crimes committed by saying they are integral to being the superpower. And without discussion this is given as analysis. The logic is that it is the superpower because of its economic capacity, military projection, cultural influences, and so on. That is the idea which is projected – of a superpower that sits atop the world. It is not limited to a nation-state or its territorial integrity. The image of the world we live in is given from this perspective.
Evidence of this comes in the speech given by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, at the Wilson Center during his recent visit to Washington on June 17. Stoltenberg underscored the reactionary aims NATO continues to espouse today. Russia and China oppose NATO, he said, "because they know that in NATO, the United States has something they don't have, 31 friends and Allies, which help to advance U.S. interests, multiply U.S. power, and keep Americans safe. Alone, the United States represents a quarter of the world economy, but together with NATO Allies, we represent half of the world's economic might, and half of the world's military might. So together, we are much stronger." He went on to affirm the central role U.S. imperialist interests have played in driving NATO: "For 75 years, the United States has been the driving force at NATO. [...] And for 75 years, keeping NATO united and strong has been in America's national security interest," he said.
All this hyperbolic rhetoric cannot cover up that NATO unity is a figment of the imagination of those who do not want to face the fact that the world and humankind are leaving them behind. Stoltenberg's fanciful dreams of U.S. and NATO magnificence are echoed by Canada's cardboard cut out Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who never upholds the international rule of law but repeats the U.S. imperialist nonsense about standing united for 75 years to defend its rules-based international order where it makes up the rules as it goes along. The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) announced on July 2 that Trudeau will attend the NATO summit from July 8 to 11, 2024. According to the PMO:
"For 75 years, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has underpinned the rules-based international order. As threats to peace and security become increasingly complex and attempts to destabilize our collective defence become more sophisticated, Canada and its NATO Allies are standing united -- dedicated to defending democracy, security, and freedom."
"The NATO Alliance stands steadfast -- protecting freedom and in defence of democracy. NATO was founded 75 years ago, and Canada has been part of nearly every operation in the Alliance. At this year's Summit, we will strengthen our work to uphold the global order that underpins our prosperity and sovereignty," the PMO quotes Trudeau saying.
In a July 5 press release, NATO quotes its outgoing Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg saying, "At the Washington Summit, we will demonstrate NATO's unity and strength once again -- in support of Ukraine, and to keep all our people and values safe."
While NATO claims to be united by shared values, it is saying such things even after major debacles in June concerning Ukraine -- its major preoccupation at this time -- show a pronounced lack of unity. At the NATO Defence Ministers' meeting on June 13-14 in Brussels, NATO was forced to abandon its "principle" of consensus and adopt its Ukraine Support Plan without Hungary's approval, a country that has declined any involvement in the U.S./NATO proxy war for the foreseeable future. The "Global Summit on Peace in Ukraine" held in Switzerland, June 15-16 followed immediately afterward and was an unmitigated failure. Convened on a fraudulent basis without the participation of Russia, there was no intention of achieving peace in Ukraine which is why it failed to produce any concrete outcome. Far from making any advances, the decision by the G7, which met following the meeting in Switzerland, to keep financing Ukraine with money stolen from interest on seized Russian assets, merely underscores the hopeless situation in which the U.S. and NATO allies find themselves in.
Then, on June 27, it was announced that the President of Bulgaria, Rumen Radev, would not lead or participate in the country's delegation to the NATO summit, due to internal differences over the country's positions on the war in Ukraine. Radev said he was not consulted while the government worked out the official position of the country. Radev is said to not support the pro-NATO/anti-Russia positions of others in the Bulgarian government. As president, Radev is commander-in-chief of the Bulgarian military.
On July 2, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban began an international trip that started with a visit to Ukraine, then Russia, and then China to push for a ceasefire followed by accelerated peace talks. It is also known that the peoples of Europe do not support their government's Ukraine policy, evidence of which is the current spate of opposition to Macron in France, the defeat of Rishi Sunak in Britain, opposition in Poland and other countries. Sustained opposition has come from farmers in Poland and elsewhere against the negative effects on their livelihood and production caused by anti-Russia sanctions and other measures, as well as cheap imports of Ukrainian grain to bolster Ukraine's failing economy which has been taken over lock, stock and barrel by international banks and oligopolies.
Add to this the fact that one of NATO's nine "global partners" is not exactly on side with its warmongering lies about its proxy war in Ukraine and support for genocide against the Palestinian people either. Colombia's President Gustavo Petro refused to attend the concocted conference in Switzerland to supposedly find a solution to the Ukraine-Russia conflict. He said it was not a free forum to discuss the path to peace between Russia and Ukraine, that all the conclusions were already predetermined, and that instead of talking about how to prolong the war Europe should be talking about how to end it. He has also made repeated un-NATO-like pronouncements about the genocide in Palestine, comparing the actions of Israel to those of the Nazis. At a July 5 concert funded by the Petro government "for hope and solidarity with the Palestinian people" a mammoth Palestinian flag saying Stop the Genocide covered the facade of the national Senate building in Bolivar Square, Bogota.
Canada's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland hailed NATO's nefarious mission to continue dividing the world on a racist and ideological basis plainly enough when she spoke on October 11, 2022 at the U.S. geopolitical think tank, the Brookings Institute. Railing against Russia's Special Military Operation in Ukraine which she called an "invasion of Ukraine," and "China's increasingly aggressive wolf-diplomacy," she said that "to respond to these challenges to the U.S. rules-based international order, the first and most fundamental pillar is that we, the world's democracies, must strengthen our connections with each other... to deepen and expand our core military alliance -- NATO."
Far from it, it is the peoples of the world who play the decisive role in bringing in a mass democracy in their service. The days of NATO are over. The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) calls on all peace-loving Canadians to take action on this occasion to demand that Canada Get Out of NATO!, that NATO be dismantled and to Make Canada a Zone for Peace.
This article was published in
Volume 54 Number 40 - July 8, 2024
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2024/Articles/MS54401.HTM
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