Secretary Generals and the demise of NATO
A new NATO Secretary General is about to be appointed. Do you know why this decision is so relevant?
The three Leftist amigos: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (left), US President Joe Biden and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez laugh together at the NATO Summit in Madrid, June 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
“Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.”
This quote by Democrat US Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey (1965-1969) is one that many have been unable to fully comprehend throughout history. At a time when foreign and local issues are so deeply intertwined, keeping this in mind is crucial.
I have said before that to best safeguard US interests, it is now 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.
Sadly, this is exactly the opposite of what NATO Secretary General Manfred Wörner (1988-1994) advised the Allies at the very end of the Cold War. He had wanted to see NATO transform from confrontation to cooperation, from a military alliance to a political one, from mere deterrence to protection against risks and instability, from a US-led Alliance to a genuine partnership with responsible European allies that would play an equal leadership role and pay their fair share, from confrontation with the USSR to partnership with Moscow. He believed that was the only path to securing peace in Europe, ensuring Western prosperity and fostering world growth and stability.
US national interests can potentially be best served in an scenario like the one dreamt by Manfred Wörner. His view intrinsically connected with President Trump’s foreign policy vision: a mutually respectful relation with Russia would ensure a framework for European peace, with each European NATO ally investing in its own defense and openly ensuring its national interests as the best deterrent for potential conflicts. This, combined with economic development and prosperity, would have brought “peace at home, peace in the world”, quoting the great Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Add to that a tough US policy towards the terror-sponsor criminal regime in Iran and aggressive Communist China, and the Trump worldview proved to be the right recipe to reduce tension, minimize conflict, deactivate many regional rivalries and enshrine economic growth in peace. But obviously, that pretty much goes against the interests of the global elite, the military industrial complex, Communist China and its Leftist puppets, the terror-sponsor criminal regime in Iran and the other world forces looking to dismantle the West.
Norwegian Socialist politician Jens Stoltenberg was the man the CCP and the global elite needed to set NATO and the world on another course. Ten years since he took office, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has ensured that the North Atlantic Alliance becomes exactly the opposite of all what Manfred Wörner dreamt about and President Trump started to put into motion. The Secretary General who in 2023 said that “weapons are in fact the way to peace” had from 2017 to 2020 fully undermined President Trump’s message to the European allies of a much needed investment in their own defense capabilities as a tool to prevent crises like the ones the Biden administration later incited since 2021. Stoltenberg has played -for a whole decade in many different aspects- his cards exactly the way Xi Jinping, George Soros and the global elite of Davos wanted. If his successor keeps on doing things the same way, we’re headed to the total demise of NATO and the Western world at the hands of our enemies. And only fools can ignore this reality and its consequences.
A former Prime Minister of Norway until becoming the 13th Allied Secretary General in 2014, Stoltenberg should have never been appointed to that role. A politician from birth who never worked in the private sector, Stoltenberg grew up in a privileged environment and meteorically went from college to Norwegian Labour Party youth leader to journalist in the party newspaper to State Secretary in the Ministry of Environment by the time he was 30. From there to MP at the Storting in Oslo, several ministerial posts, PM twice and voila: NATO Secretary General by the time he was 55. All that without leaving his comfortable Leftist upper class life in the Norwegian capital (sounds familiar?). Add to that the fact that he was influenced in his early teens by his sister Camilla -member of the Marxist-Leninist group Red Youth in Norway- and Stoltenberg’s profile gets even more dramatic (which in Chinese translates as perfect).
From his office at NATO HQ Brussels, Stoltenberg transformed the role of Secretary General of the Alliance from that of a much needed politically-neutral servant despite party affiliation, a bridge builder, a consensus seeker, a manager of the common agenda and a listener to the needs of the Allies, to precisely the opposite: an unelected policy-maker, an agenda pusher, a partisan hack, a Socialist propagandist, a narcissist spotlight-seeker. He basically continued acting in his role of Prime Minister, simply changing the Norwegian flag over his desk for that of NATO in 2014, without having to win elections, without having to answer to any electorate, without having to explain the economic implications of his political decisions to any constituency: NATO HQ became Marxist paradise on Earth, and paid for with our taxes.
And all that happened precisely at a historical moment when Communist China started playing a very aggressive international game, with Xi Jinping delighted to have such a good looking puppet in NATO HQ Brussels, decided to influence NATO’s agenda to limits that the public opinions in most Allied nations had never experienced and are still not even aware of. Both Xi Jinping and Stoltenberg played it safe there: they knew it wasn’t smart to confront the public opinions in Europe with let’s say a dude with long hair wearing a mini-skirt at the Ministry of Defense, imposing martial rule and the party line around while saying that “diversity is our strength” and demanding to be called “Admiral Rachel”.
Leftist diversity obviously means you must all think and do as I say, pay for it and shut up.
It must also be understood that all previous NATO Secretary Generals in the 20th century were mature people who had directly experienced the effects of war in Europe, had a very deep understanding of the real threat both Communism and Fascism posed to Western democracies, and had no appetite for selfish partisan agendas nor for moves that would recklessly defy Moscow. On one hand they were fully aware that the implications were too serious, and on the other hand they knew -unlike our current leaders- that words like democracy and peace were empty of meaning in a context of political instability, economic stagnation and social turmoil. The 1920s and the 1930s in Europe had taught them a very valuable lesson. They knew that political stability, economic growth and national cohesion within each allied nation were as essential for NATO as interoperability and cohesion were among the Allies.
In fact, NATO’s very first Secretary General from 1952 to 1957, British Indian Army General Hastings Ismay, was not actually a traditional politician but a top brass military leader with proven international and diplomatic solvency and incomparable war experience. His role coordinating the Allies proved essential at a time when NATO was formed “only” by 15 nations: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Turkey, the UK and the US. It was the initial phase of the Cold War and the allies were far more homogeneous and in synchrony than ever after. Subsequent NATO expansions were very limited: West Germany joined the Alliance in 1955 (the complete German reunification wouldn’t take place until 1990) and Spain joined it in 1982.
The Secretary Generals that followed the path marked by the Lord Ismay made a collection of solvent leaders worth monumentalizing: from Belgian veteran Socialist politician Paul-Henri Spaak (1957-1961), to Dutch Conservative statesman Dirk Stikker (1961-1964), to Italian brilliant diplomat Manlio Brosio (1964-1971), to Dutch master of politics, diplomacy and counterespionage Joseph Luns (1971-1984), to British veteran politician Peter Carrington (1984-1988), to trailblazing German Conservative Manfred Wörner (1988-1994), to impressive Spanish scientist, Socialist politician, diplomat and statesman Javier Solana (1995-1999).
Corrupt Belgian Socialist politician Willy Claes (1994-1995) apart, the men who served as NATO Secretary Generals in the 20th century were people of remarkable personal, political, military and diplomatic backgrounds. Leaders who had a very rich view of the world, a deep understanding of reality on the ground, strategy, history, warfare, tangible experience in key embassies and in very different roles. Stoltenberg in the 21st century was nothing like them.
It would be unfair not to mention here 21st century Secretary Generals like British experienced Labour politician George Robertson (1999-2003) and Dutch master diplomat Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (2004-2009). In 2009, new forces and new dynamics within NATO did something never done until then: appointing Secretary General someone who had just ended serving as Prime Minister for two full mandates in his own country.
Danish former Premier Anders Fogh Rasmussen became the 12th NATO Secretary General with the support of the Obama Administration in 2009, after having led his country’s government since 2001. And that’s where the whole NATO Secretary General game started to go haywire! Nobody can go from being active Prime Minister to being NATO Secretary General in the 21st century without distorting the Alliance’s natural functioning and the role of Secretary General as it had been understood from the start, when NATO functioned properly.
A PM is the center of power in his/her country, the decision maker, the capo di tutti capi. That’s not the role a NATO Secretary General must play to conduct business in the Alliance in a way that preserves the interests of all the different Allies. Even more so in a context of continued NATO expansion: in 1999 (Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary), 2004 (Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia), 2009 (Albania, Croatia), 2017 (Montenegro), 2020 (North Macedonia), 2023 (Finland) and 2024 (Sweden). And all this at a time of real world reshaping, in a way we have never experienced before, with powerful players outside the political realm that have become perhaps the real kingmakers in the game. Names like Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, Soros or Schwab are just a few of the scary ones worth mentioning.
China has used Stoltenberg from day one to change the inner dynamics within the NATO decision making core. Unbeknownst to the general public, Stoltenberg has developed a tight team of Socialist political activists who have created a vast network of advisor cells, groups of experts and media developers that have opened the doors of the Alliance’s HQ to Leftist activists and strategists aimed at turning NATO into a Marxist NGO, and the Secretary General into a sort of modern superstar. All this -under the supervision of Xi Jinping- combined with the versatile use of slogans related to the climate hoax, fomenting massive immigration, transgenderism, and using the mantra “diversity is our strength” at 100 miles per hour, to turn NATO under Stoltenberg into the perfect tool to confuse Western public opinions, dismantle Allied military capabilities and allow for the materialization of what had been called until now the “replacement theory”, which now is a reality in the streets and in the political elites of most Allied countries. It all happened “gradually and then suddenly”. Got it?
Ukraine has just been the ultimate hoax, the master strategy for the CCP to achieve the utter dismantling of the West: breaking the partnership with Russia restored by President Trump after the disastrous Obama administration years; manipulating the West’s weak leaders and public opinions into mobilizing its resources in a suicidal fashion to prioritize defending the nonexistent democracy of Ukraine, while betraying their own national interests and abandoning America’s main ally and true democracy Israel.
Whatever they say, the global Left doesn’t hate Netanyahu because he is any warmonger; they hate him because he was the Minister of Finance who dismantled the traditional Socialist institutional framework in Israel 20 years ago and allowed for a political and economic revival that transformed the country into a regional economic powerhouse without comparison. Something truly unforgivable in the eyes of buffoon Bernie Sanders and the Marxist world gang, allied with a fanatic Iran and a confused European and US Leftist elite that brainlessly embraces the death of Western freedoms and culture.
So how shall they ensure that Stoltenberg’s legacy survives 2024? The global elite’s plan to appoint Spanish Socialist PM Pedro Sanchez as a replacement for the post of NATO Secretary General failed in summer 2023, when Sanchez’s party lost the local and regional elections and as a result he called a general snap election to catch Spanish opposition to his Socialist/Communist government off guard. Narcissist Pedro Sanchez had a very similar background to that of Stoltenberg and both Xi Jinping and the global elite were delighted with him as a potential candidate to run NATO to the ground. The recent political scandal in Spain due to the corruption allegations against Sanchez’s own wife make it impossible now to even think of him to head the Alliance. He’s out, so off to Plan B.
They will try now to elevate current Dutch Premier Mark Rutte and anoint him to replace Jens Stoltenberg as NATO Secretary General in 2024. This once more would be a disastrous choice: Rutte is a weak conservative-liberal politician who plays the game the global elite wants. He’s been the longest serving Prime Minister in the Netherlands, in office since 2010, and he shall be again someone who will continue playing Stoltenberg’s role of an unelected policy maker, unaccountable to any electorate, consolidating the transformation of NATO from a useful institution to protect the values of the West in the past, to a globalist instrument used to tighten the straitjacket currently imprisoning the West’s democracy, economy and military might.
Qui bono?
Is there still time to communicate to our “democratically elected representatives” that we need someone other than the current longest serving Prime Minister in Europe as the next NATO Secretary General? Sadly, it doesn’t seem so, with our so-called representatives more interested in defending Ukraine’s borders than our own ones, time is running out. November 2024 may well be our very last chance to try and regain control of our lives, our once-sovereign nations, our alliances and institutions.
As I wrote once before, 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.
Take a good look around yourselves, if the ever louder noise and the pro-Hamas crowds of brainless college-educated morons and foreign military-age-activists allow you.
It is definitely time to wake up.