It is easy to establish the connection between more weapons in the world and more wars. History teaches us that those who can impose their ideas by force will not try to do so by other means. This new expansion is a new expression of the authoritarian and colonial response to the current eco-social crisis, because wars have also led to violent expropriation of resources.
NATO's new security concept called NATO 360Â º radius, calls for military intervention by NATO anywhere, anytime, all around the planet. The Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China are singled out as military adversaries and, for the first time, the Global South appears within the scope of the Alliance's intervention capabilities,
NATO 360 is prepared to intervene outside the imperative mandates of the UN Charter, as it did in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. This violation of international law, as we have also seen in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has sped up the pace at which the world becomes insecure and militarized.
This southward focus shift will bring about an extension in the capabilities of US military bases deployed in the Mediterranean; in the case of Spain, the bases in Rota and Morà ³n.
NATO 360Â º strategy is a threat to peace, an obstacle to progress towards shared demilitarized security.
It is antagonistic to real human security that responds to the threats faced by the majority of the planet's population: hunger, disease, inequality, unemployment, lack of public services, land grabbing and wealth, and climate crises.
NATO 360Â º advocates increasing military spending to 2% of GDP, does not renounce the use of nuclear weapons, and thus encourages the proliferation of the ultimate weapon of mass destruction."
NO TO NATO's International Coalition Statement
The NO to NATO international coalition issued a strong and extensive statement on July 4, contesting NATO's Madrid summit strategy and its continuing aggressive actions. The coalition expressed "outrage" at the decision of NATO's heads of government to further increase confrontation, militarization, and globalization, instead of opting for dialog, disarmament, and peaceful co-existence.
Its statement reads:
"NATO propaganda paints a false picture of NATO representing the so-called democratic countries versus an authoritarian world to legitimize its militaristic course. In reality, NATO is stepping up its confrontation with rival and emerging superpowers in pursuit of geopolitical hegemony, control over transport routes, markets and natural resources. Although NATO's strategic concept claims to be working toward disarmament and arms control, it is doing just the opposite."
The coalition statement offers a reminder that NATO member states combined
"account for two-thirds of the global arms trade that destabilizes entire regions and that warring countries like Saudi Arabia are among NATO's best customers. NATO maintains privileged relationships with gross human rights violators like Colombia and apartheid state Israel. The military alliance is abusing the Russia-Ukraine war to dramatically increase the armament of its member states by many tens of billions and by expanding its Rapid Reaction Force on a massive scale. Under the leadership of the U.S., NATO applies a military strategy aimed at weakening Russia rather than bringing a swift end to the war. This is a dangerous policy that can only contribute to increase the suffering in Ukraine and can bring the war into dangerous levels of (nuclear) escalation."
Addressing nuclear weapons, the statement notes that:
"NATO and the nuclear member states continue to see nuclear weapons as an essential part of their military strategy and refuse to comply with the obligations of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. They reject the new nuclear ban treaty (TPNW) which is a necessary complementary instrument to free the world of genocidal weapons."
The international NO to NATO coalition
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