German Parliamentarian in Washington Says No to NATO - Yes to Peace

http://worldbeyondwar.org/german-parliamentarian-in-washington-says-no-to-nato-yes-to-peace/
http://consortiumnews.com/2024/07/09/75-years-of-nato-75-years-of-denial/
Date Written:  2024-07-07
Publisher:  World Without War
Year Published:  2024
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX25109

NATO’s myths are losing their luster. The Alliance’s strategies are succumbing to their own imperial overextension. What we need now is an immediate end to arms deliveries to Ukraine and, at long last, a ceasefire there. Those who seek peace and security for their own populations must halt the aggressive policy of expansion into Asia. We need peace instead of NATO.

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While its defenders speak of the alliance as if it were eternal, the organization’s drive toward escalation in Ukraine and its expansion into Asia is exceeding the Alliance’s own capacities. Just as with most empires, NATO is falling into a self-made trap of overextension. In this regard, NATO is a political fossil, unprepared to learn from the defeat of the German Empire in the First World War and appears to be repeating the gross miscalculations of the Kaiser’s Germany, only on a global scale.

The German Empire believed it could wage a war on two fronts. Today, a similar conviction is gaining traction within NATO that it must not only confront Russia and China, but that it is also to involve itself in the Middle East. This is a claim to global hegemony now under formulation. What hubris!