{"id":224286,"date":"2016-02-13T03:38:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T03:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=224286"},"modified":"2016-02-13T03:38:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T03:38:38","slug":"end-nato-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/end-nato-now\/","title":{"rendered":"End NATO Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The continuation of NATO, after its counterpart the Warsaw Pact ended in 1991, is an insanity that\u2019s driving the world inexorably toward World War III.<\/span><\/p>\n

The trigger for that war is now being set by NATO member Turkey, which wants to invade neighboring Syria, and which has the support of\u00a0the Gulf Cooperation Council<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(including the \u00a0world\u2019s biggest buyer of U.S. weapons, Saudi Arabia) who are\u00a0massing troops and weapons on Syria\u2019s northern border, in preparation for an invasion southward into Syria<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once they invade Syria from Turkish territory, it won\u2019t be enough for the Syrian army and its Russian ally to wage war against them inside Syrian territory, because the invaders will then need to be counter-attacked in order to be defeated, and so there will be an invasion of NATO-member Turkey \u2014 a counter-invasion, in defence against Syria\u2019s invaders \u2014 a counter-invasion which, however morally necessary it will be, will trigger nuclear war, for this reason:<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0NATO Treaty<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in its Article Five, \u201cCollective Defence,\u201d asserts (as summarized by NATO):\u00a0“Collective defence means that an attack against one\u00a0Ally is considered as an attack against all Allies.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0In other words, when Syria and Russia respond to Turkey\u2019s aggression by counter-invading Turkey, the entire NATO alliance are automatically Treaty-obligated to \u2018defend\u2019 Turkey from that justified<\/i>\u00a0 invasion of Turkey by Syria and by Syria\u2019s Russian ally.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either Russia would instead abandon its ally there, which would mean for Russia to capitulate to NATO\u2019s invasion of its ally, or else Russia would do its moral duty to its ally, and there would then be World War III, between Russia and all NATO nations, which would be an all-out nuclear war, which will end civilization and make all continued life on this planet intolerable.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the \u2014 after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in 1991 \u2014 entirely unnecessary danger, and the blatant evil (to be quite frank about it), of NATO\u2019s having been continued beyond the time when it should have terminated (when and as the Warsaw Pact did in 1991).<\/span><\/p>\n

America\u2019s President at that time in 1990, George Herbert Walker Bush, said privately to other NATO members, contradicting the message and assurances that he and his agents had verbally given to Mikhail Gorbachev saying that the Cold War was now at an end,\u00a0\u201cTo hell with that! We prevailed, they didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Bush was secretly committed to a military \u2018victory\u2019 over Russia, even though communism, which was the alleged cause of the Cold War, had ended. Bush wanted conquest; all subsequent U.S. Presidents have followed along with that evil intent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every moment of NATO\u2019s continued existence after that moment has been a continuation of Bush\u2019s lie. It has become a fatal lie now, because every subsequent U.S. President has not only continued NATO, but increased its membership, has expanded NATO all the way to Russia\u2019s borders, and President Obama wants the next U.S. President to culminate this, when he made clear (via his \u2018Defense\u2019 Secretary Ash Carter) recently, that the U.S. will quadruple American weaponry and troops on Russia\u2019s border in a process that\u2019s to be completed by 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

Turkey can\u2019t wait. The insanity and evil that have reigned in the West since 1991 are now set on a Turkish hair-trigger. That gun \u2014 NATO \u2014 is pointed actually against everyone on this planet, even if a Turkish madman doesn\u2019t pull its trigger immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n

End NATO Now. Before it\u2019s too late.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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