Is NATO at 75 truly stronger and more united than ever?
NATO in 2024 suffers from institutional schizophrenia but they don't want you to know it.
NATO flag. BNS nuotr.
In March 2024, at the NATO HQ Brussels ceremony to welcome Sweden as the 32nd ally, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg repeated to the world press that “NATO is bigger and stronger. Ukraine is closer to NATO membership than ever before and as the brave Ukrainians continue to fight for their freedom, we stand by their side”. Little after, the Alliance celebrated its own 75th anniversary and Stoltenberg said again that NATO is more united than ever, but is it truly so? His tenure as Secretary General has been the second longest in the history of NATO but by 2024 far too many things show the alliance suffers from institutional schizophrenia.
In public, most NATO-country-leaders repeat constantly that Ukraine’s territorial integrity is sacrosanct and must thus be defended at any cost, with the few proponents of ‘common sense’ being branded as pro-Russian or pro-Putin. They seem to forget that most NATO members have been violating the territorial integrity of Serbia since 2008, thus sending a very scary message worldwide. Most UN member states refuse to accept the violation of Serbia’s territorial integrity, and they look in awe at those same NATO allies which since 2022 declare that protecting Ukraine’s territorial integrity deserves risking a nuclear WWIII.
It is especially puzzling to hear that NATO is now more united than ever, when its own members can’t even agree for the last 16 years on how many sovereign states there are in Europe. It is grotesque to give lessons to the rest of the world when one violates UN Security Council resolutions while accusing others of doing the very same thing.
It is likewise impossible to understand the fixation of NATO’s leadership with expanding the alliance to include countries with little to none economic might, military power or diplomatic relevance, which nevertheless end up having the same veto and decision-making power as those allies with the strongest economic and military resources. With China exerting a deeper control over these weaker NATO allies year after year, who shall be really in command in the North Atlantic region pretty soon?
Concrete examples challenging the security of different allies in 2024 put into question who actually profits from NATO and the current state of affairs. Looking at allied power number 1, the US, its security and national integrity are being destroyed by the hybrid war launched in 2021 by foreign powers led by China and the organized crime cartels pushing an invasion by millions of illegals, while US military and financial resources keep on being diverted to foreign theaters in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Likewise in April 2024, NATO power Spain has deployed F-18s to the Baltic region, tank columns to Poland and armored personnel carriers to Slovakia, all to prevent an imaginary Russian aggression against NATO while Spain’s own security and territorial integrity keep on being eroded by NATO partner Morocco, right under NATO’s southern flank. Spanish military and law enforcement lack the means to face properly the hybrid war carried out by Rabat and the organized crime cartels channeling jihadists, drugs and a real tsunami of illegal migration.
Most disturbingly, NATO allied power Germany was shocked in September 2022 when US and Norwegian military personnel reportedly blew up the ‘Nord Stream 2’ natural-gas-pipeline in what would be the gravest attack between NATO allies in history, resulting in the worst release of methane gas into the atmosphere ever, all in a Machiavellian effort by the Biden administration to cut the energy supply from Russia to the EU.
The general public in America, Germany and Spain (as in most other NATO member states) feels unprotected and not safe. It is thus not strange that millions today fail to see NATO as a security enhancer or a conflict deterrent at all. Too many see it just as an outdated excuse to empty the public purse while enriching the military industrial complex and the politicians who feed said industrial complex. The global elite is constantly hungry for war but 'We the People' are tired of senseless conflict while our nations are being dismantled in front of our eyes.
In another key example, while NATO power Turkey repeatedly calls on all allies to cooperate in the fight against international terrorism (pointing at the gross contradiction of key NATO allies supporting the very PKK that Ankara has been fighting for decades), the Turkish government fails to brand Hamas a terrorist organization, rather treating its leaders as “freedom fighters”.
For European leaders like Turkish President Erdogan, Spanish PM Sanchez, UN Secretary General Guterres and EU Foreign Policy Chief Borrell it seems it is Israel (the only Western democracy in the region) that should be branded a “terrorist state”, in yet another untenable contradiction that further weakens NATO, the EU and the UN.
In an even more shocking example, NATO power France was exposed in late 2022 when one of its biggest corporations declared itself guilty of having supported ISIS for years and agreed to pay a $778 million fine imposed by a US Court. How credible is that one of France’s largest corporations had supported ISIS in such a big scale without the French government being aware? All that despite NATO’s years-long official effort to fight ISIS, many of which operatives have illegally emigrated to the US and the EU since 2021 with potentially disastrous consequences to come.
So is NATO at 75 stronger and more united than ever? No, Mister Stoltenberg, it certainly does not seem so. In a big part thanks to you and those around you at NATO HQ Brussels during your decade-long mandate.
It’s hard to argue NATO wasn’t an essential organization in the second half of the 20th century, but the political forces behind it in the 21st century have drained it of its value and masterfully used it to disarm and bankrupt America and other key Western allies.
There’s no better way to defeat and dismantle the West than by taking over all international organizations and turning them against their original founders.
It is thus time to put NATO to rest, build alternative bilateral defense agreements with serious and reliable partners, and focus on our own pressing national needs and interests first. We must face the fact that we cannot “walk and chew gum at the same time” any longer, as some politicians in Washington DC still say, thinking we can magically fix our broken national and international systems at once and without doing anything differently.
Failing to see this would be political suicide, much like most of the key policies implemented by the Biden administration since 2021…