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<\/p>\nAlthough the biggest news in our time is that NATO is now in its death-spiral, no one is saying it in the mainstream media. Therefore, I will indicate not only the fact, but also the reasons why it is occurring, and why the end of NATO will actually increase \u2014 instead of decrease \u2014 the security of all NATO-member nations.<\/p>\n
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First of all, I shall post excerpts from an article by Stephen Bryen<\/a>, who retired from heading one of the world\u2019s largest armaments manufacturers and has also served as U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, and as a staff director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Despite having reached such high posts in the U.S. military-industrial complex, he has emerged from it as a person of high integrity, and whose predictive accuracy in his articles to the public has turned out to be extraordinarily high \u2014 which is very rare for someone of his background:<\/p>\n \u201cPresidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris says she will not talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin without Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cUkraine\u2019s war, which is NATO\u2019s war, is going badly. NATO\u2019s future is in doubt.<\/em><\/p>\n Meanwhile Zelensky, who was just forced to cancel a forthcoming peace summit (officially postponed to a future time) because no one wanted to come, has made it clear he will not negotiate with Moscow under any circumstances. <\/em><\/p>\n Zelensky understands that any concession he might make to Russia would be fatal for him. As his army is beginning to disintegrate, Zelensky is relying on neo-Nazi elite brigades for his protection.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Russians don\u2019t have to reject the latest idea because, due to Zelensky, it is DOA (Dead on Arrival). Of course that won\u2019t stop Europe and some in Washington pushing the proposal anyway, while shoveling more arms to Ukraine, hoping the Ukrainians can hold out until well after the US elections. Should Ukraine go belly up anytime soon, it would be chaos for the Democrats in the US and also would likely collapse the German government, perhaps even the shaky French regime.<\/em><\/p>\n Most experts don\u2019t think that will occur. But most experts often are wrong.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMeanwhile, for their part, the Russians won\u2019t accept a cease fire in place, since it offers them nothing.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere is little or no prospect that Russia\u2019s demands will be met, neither by the current Ukrainian government nor by most NATO countries. For that reason, the Zelensky hard line, so long as it lasts, assures that Russia\u2019s real goal will be to replace Ukraine\u2019s government altogether with one favorable to Russia and willing to agree to Moscow\u2019s claims.<\/em><\/p>\n If the Russians can pull it off, then NATO will have to retrench, something it should do anyway if the alliance is to retain any credibility. Unfortunately, despite a lot of bravado talk, the chance to revitalize NATO as a military alliance does not look promising. <\/em><\/p>\n There are profound reasons why NATO is floundering, despite appearances. The biggest reason of all is that NATO has been expanding without paying attention to its need to be a credible defensive alliance.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNATO today is about expansion, not defense. When it comes to defense, NATO is utterly reliant on the United States, and America\u2019s commitment to send its army, air force and Navy to defend NATO expansion. <\/em><\/p>\n NATO expansion as a policy requires vast military commitments by America\u2019s allies. That won\u2019t occur.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n The reason it won\u2019t occur is that the U.S. Government has been spending annually on \u2018defense\u2019 not only the approximately $900 billion per year that goes out from the \u2018Defense\u2019 Department, but also the approximately $600 billion that goes out annually from other federal Departments, such as Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security, Treasury, Energy, NASA, and the intelligence agencies. (This is done so as to hide from the public that the U.S. Government isn\u2019t spending the mere 37% of the global military budget that the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute alleges \u2014 on the basis of counting only the \u2018Defense\u2019 Department\u2019s expenditures \u2014 but slightly over 50% of the global military budget.)<\/p>\n There simply isn\u2019t the capacity for the U.S. Government to be able to be spending much more than the 53% of all congressionally passed and Presidentially authorized annual spending that it currently does consume. Around half of that 53% gets paid to the U.S. firms such as Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Boeing, L3Harris, and Northrop Grumman, which make and sell to all of NATO and the rest of the U.S. empire the majority of the over $100 billion per year of the global sales in armaments<\/a>. That has been what Russia is up against in Ukraine, and yet even with U.S.-and-allied armaments manufacturers having gone all-out ever since 2022 to outgun Russia on the battlefields of Ukraine, the armaments-shortages have been almost entirely on the U.S.-and-allied side. Consequently, if Ukraine becomes defeated by Russia, as is now widely expected<\/a>, then that loss will be NATO\u2019s loss as well.<\/p>\n The reason why this would be good for international security is that, as the major international poll that asked globally \u201cWhich country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?<\/em>\u201d<\/a> found that \u201cgreatest threat<\/em>\u201d to be overwhelmingly the United States; and, so, if Biden, Harris, or Trump, will indeed go nuclear in order to prevent a Russian victory in Ukraine, there is little chance that America instead of Russia is going to be overwhelmingly blamed for it by whatever survivors there will be from it.<\/p>\n Ever since 25 July 1945, the U.S. Government has had as its #1 priority to fight Russia, but the evidence ever since 24 February 2022 is that this #1 goal will end in failure. There will be nothing to be gained by going nuclear in Ukraine. If the U.S. won\u2019t go nuclear over Ukraine, then not only the Cold war, which the U.S. started on 25 July 1945, will end, but the hot parts of it also will, in the U.S. regime\u2019s final and irreversible defeat.<\/p>\n Where Bryen said that \u201cNATO today is about expansion, not defense<\/em>,\u201d he was \u2014 as inconspicuously as possible \u2014 acknowledging that NATO\u2019s founding claim to be a \u201cdefensive<\/em>\u201d alliance, is nothing more than a lie after communism ended in Russia in 1991 \u2014 and then displayed its actually aggressive reality when it doubled its number of member-nations, right up to Russia\u2019s very borders<\/a> (despite having promised not to do it).<\/p>\n Both Russia and China have a shared anti-imperialist foreign policy; and after the fall of NATO, the sole remaining empire \u2014 America \u2014 will no longer be a threat to the entire globe. The result would be a much better world.<\/p>\n Author: Eric Zuesse<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n yogaesoteric <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although the biggest news in our time is that NATO is now in its death-spiral, no one is saying it in the mainstream media. 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\nOctober 30, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n