So NATO is
concerned that Russia has become involved in Syria. Is NATO concerned because Russia is actually bombing Islamic State
instead of standing back while it spreads, or instead of mysterious unmarked
aircraft dropping supplies to it, or is NATO concerned because Russia is
targeting terrorists supported by the West?
What credibility does NATO have?
Does NATO
these days really believe it has an iota of credibility, when a growing number
of political formations across Europe are questioning the constitutionality of its existence (how Constitutional is it to have foreign policy
dictated by a supra-national organism which picks fights depending on which way
the wind is blowing in Washington?) and when a growing number of political
formations in Europe are discriminated against simply because they question the
minimum requirement for government, which is to support NATO? Support NATO and
its budget, of course. And let us not forget that the collective budget of NATO
member states is some 1.2 trillion USD, that is one point two thousand
billion dollars per year each and every year.
Does
NATO believe that anyone actually listens to a word it says when all it does is
stage displays of hysterical sabre rattling and make anachronistic references
to Cold War days? Remember when NATO waltzed into Kosovo, backed armed
terrorists, who were cutting the organs out of Serbs and selling them, who were
attacking the Serbian police and military, and then strafed civilians with
depleted uranium?
Remember
when certain NATO countries lied, entered Iraq, destroyed the State, doled out
rebuilding contracts without tender, targeted civilian utilities with military
hardware, left swathes of the country radioactive, up to a million people dead,
and thousands of children seriously deformed?
Remember
when NATO committed war crimes in Libya (See this) and breached the conditions of UNSC Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011),
strafed civilian structures with military aircraft, actively engaged in an
internal civil war caused by NATO itself, remember when NATO targeted the
electricity grid and the water supply network, then bombed the pipes factory so
that the pipeline could not be repaired, "to break their backs"?
Remember
when NATO interfered in Ukraine and backed a Fascist coup which illegally ousted
the democratically elected President, and masterminded a take-over by
terrorists and thugs who boasted of links to al-Qaeda and then perpetrated
massacres of Russian-speaking Ukrainians in Donbass?
Remember
NATO's reaction when Georgia launched a murderous attack against Russians then together with
its wonderful NATO military advisors got the living crap smacked out of it by
the Spetznaz?
Lies, lies, lies
And
now we see NATO, after entering Iraq and destabilizing Syria by backing
terrorists, standing back and watching as Islamic State has created Hell on
Earth in the areas it controls, also backing other terrorist forces, and now
complaining that Russia is combatting...terrorists.
What is it
with NATO and terrorists? Is the message "Hey! Please don't bomb our
terrorists"? In one week Russia has inflicted more damage on Syrian
terrorist forces than the West in one year of fiddling around. And now, NATO
"retaliates" by placing more targets in the Baltic States for Russian
missiles, as if any Russian anywhere had any issue at all with the Baltic
States. Who cares? These States had the worst Fascist record in Europe when it
came to concentration camps and have endemically had a chip on their shoulder
about Russia, as Napoleon had, as Hitler had.
Maybe NATO
would like to bring it on. Ask Hitler and Napoleon first.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
*Timothy
Bancroft-Hinchey has worked as a correspondent, journalist, deputy editor,
editor, chief editor, director, project manager, executive director, partner
and owner of printed and online daily, weekly, monthly and yearly publications,
TV stations and media groups printed, aired and distributed in Angola, Brazil,
Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, Mozambique and São Tomé and
Principe Isles; the Russian Foreign Ministry publication Dialog and the Cuban
Foreign Ministry Official Publications. He has spent the last two decades in
humanitarian projects, connecting communities, working to document and catalog
disappearing languages, cultures, traditions, working to network with the LGBT
communities helping to set up shelters for abused or frightened victims and as
Media Partner with UN Women, working to foster the UN Women project to fight
against gender violence and to strive for an end to sexism, racism and homophobia.
A Vegan, he is also a Media Partner of Humane Society International, fighting
for animal rights. He is Director and Chief Editor of the Portuguese version of
Pravda.Ru.
Source:
English Pravda 09-10-2015
