Vigorous Opposition in Canada and U.S. to NATO's 75th Anniversary Summit
NATO Summit Proves Peoples of the World Must Act to Establish International Rule of Law That Favours Them
NATO's 75th Anniversary Summit, held July 9-11 in Washington, DC, was met with militant opposition starting with a people's counter-summit the weekend prior to the Summit of heads of state of member countries. Besides the counter-summit, significant rallies were held on the occasion in Washington as well as information pickets in Canada, while in many countries the resistance forces continue to oppose the heinous crimes the U.S./Zionist forces are committing against the people of Gaza and Palestine. This TML Supplement provides readers with reports of the anti-NATO actions as well as the reckless decisions taken by NATO at its 2024 Summit.
NATO issued the final declaration of its 75th anniversary Washington Summit on July 11. The declaration serves to highlight how reckless the criminal warmongering U.S.-led aggressive military alliance has become and the urgency of recognizing that only the resistance of the peoples of the world based on their own thought material and modern definitions will establish an international rule of law which favours them. The declaration makes clear that NATO's concerns are not those of the peoples of the world who are striving for peace, freedom and democracy. Its posturing and braggart behaviour confirm that it has nothing to offer, no solutions for any problem, not even its own. Like any braggart, NATO boasts arrogantly and excessively about its supposed achievements and capabilities that are either exaggerated or non-existent. Bragging and engaging in hyperbole are character traits which are often associated with insecurity and a need for validation from others, both of which apply to NATO's current state.
The more NATO
resorts to stepping up attacks on Russia, expanding
into the Asia Pacific, militarizing and threatening the peoples of
Europe, expanding in the Arctic and threatening the peoples of the
entire world, the more the resistance of the peoples of the world will
increase. The fact that
the Anglo-American media have completely abandoned reporting on the
demand of the peoples of the world to end the slaughter of the
Palestinian people and their genocide, while they speak endlessly about
the factional fighting within the U.S. and within NATO, shows the
lengths
to which the U.S. imperialists and their allies will go to make sure
the initiative is not in the hands of the Resistance forces.
An aim of the NATO establishment forces is to make the heinous crimes Israel is committing in its genocidal war in Gaza and against the Palestinians normal but this is not okay. All those countries which are not holding Israel to account, such as by cutting off relations and trade with that pariah apartheid and genocidal state, will have to account for themselves. The inaction or attempts to impose the courts as the way to stop Israel which has never, since its founding, been guided by the rule of international law, are not okay. The U.S./NATO warmongering at its summit was to divert from its failures and irrelevance and the dangers it poses. All the NATO warmongers could declare at the end of their proceedings is that they will continue to expand the aggressive alliance, step up war production and threaten even more peoples and countries. NATO cannot even extricate itself from the predicament it has created in Ukraine, even as thousands die in their proxy war. All they could come up with is that they will continue waging the U.S./NATO proxy war which everyone know means to the last Ukrainian.
According to the NATO warmongers' declaration, unless they are part of NATO or one of its so-called partners, peoples and countries pose threats if they pursue their own path and aims that do not favour U.S. hegemonic interests. The clear intention is to broaden NATO's scope in the Middle East. It is singling out Iran, targeting the People's Republic of China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and egging on Germany and Japan to enter into aggressive military partnerships. NATO likes to point out how it has "global partners" to help it carry out this warmongering, as if the peoples of these so-called partners have any illusions about NATO or want anything to do with it.
Amidst NATO's failure and the people's opposition to aggression and war, the role of the Canadian government at the NATO summit was as sycophantic as ever. While Canadians and Quebeckers are worried about living and working conditions, the rampant privatization of public assets and Canada's integration into the U.S. war economy and the destruction of the natural environment, Prime Minister Trudeau dutifully announced to an empty room that Canada would increase military spending to NATO's standard of two per cent of GDP. So too Trudeau provided "an additional $500 million in military assistance to Ukraine as part of NATO's Pledge of Long-Term Security Assistance for Ukraine, as well as further support to enhance F-16 training for Ukrainian pilots through the Ukraine Defense Contact Group Air Force Capability Coalition."
In its declaration, NATO claims that its members are "bound together by shared values: individual liberty, human rights, democracy, and the rule of law." This rings more hollow than ever given the fact that this summit marks 75 years of crimes against the peoples of Europe and the world, that the U.S. along with its allies have formed a genocide coalition, and that the U.S. is racked by discord and strife, while even NATO's European members are turning on each other, unable to sort out any problem in a manner that does not spell out factional conflict, division and war.
What is seen in the world today, especially at the actions to oppose NATO's summit, is what it means for the peoples of the world to be united against U.S./NATO aggression, wars, occupations and genocide. They want an end to imperialist war and a world where they can exercise their sovereignty and establish friendly relations with other countries based on mutual respect and benefit.
The urgency of the peoples' longstanding demands that NATO be dismantled are underscored by the Washington Summit's belligerent declaration that threatens the peoples of the world with death and destruction. The peoples must continue to seize the initiative in their own hands by organizing for peace in their countries and regions so as to establish an international rule of law which favours them.
This article was published in
Volume 54 Number 42 - July 22, 2024
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2024/Articles/MS54421.HTM
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