Ahead of the Strategic Concept meeting in Washington, he urged that "NATO can be the place where views, concerns and best practices on security are
shared by NATO's global partners. And where ... we might work out how to tackle global challenges together." [11]
His view was seconded by Madeleine Albright, who said "I think we are talking about how we can have some coordinating mechanism for all the various organizations that exist in the world." Raising a rhetorical question as to "which organization can make the biggest difference," she answered it with "While I am a great admirer of the United Nations, I know what it can and cannot do." [12]
A Russian news source responded eleven days later by revealing "NATO's new strategy authorizing the alliance to use force in any part of the globe arouses deep concern in Moscow.
"Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said this strategy contradicts the United Nations' Charter."
Russia's Lavrov warned that with the Alliance's new Strategic Concept "NATO's sphere of interests may cover the entire world." [13]
That is precisely what the new doctrine and policy is designed to effect and what Rasmussen, Albright, et al. bluntly state its intention to be. The United Nations and international law will take a back seat to global NATO.
NATO "is working on a new military strategy which will let the alliance...use force globally," of which Russia Foreign Minister Lavrov said "It does not fully comply with the UN Charter, and, of course, raises our concerns." [14]
Not only does the Western military bloc's plans to undermine, supersede and ultimately scrap the entire post-World War II international diplomatic and security order "not fully comply with the UN Charter," it is a direct attack on it.
The new concept also reiterates and intensifies the complete militarization of Europe, the retention of U.S. nuclear arms and the stationing of missile shield components there and the deployment of the continent's troops to war zones abroad. 35 of 41 European nations have deployed troops to Afghanistan on NATO's behest, for example. [15]
It also advocates the right of the North Atlantic military bloc to intervene anywhere in the world and is increasingly reviving discussion of activating its Article 5 provision for confrontation with Russia in Europe and the South Caucasus.
Earlier this month Belgian Prime Minister Belgian Yves Leterme stated that his nation and Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Norway would issue a joint declaration urging consideration of the removal of U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe. Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands are among five NATO countries housing the warheads, the others being Italy and Turkey. [16]
Nevertheless NATO's position is to support the continued basing of American nuclear weapons, and the bloc will defer to Washington's 2010 Nuclear Posture Review, scheduled to be submitted to Congress last December but delayed for several months.
NATO is the Pentagon's nuclear Trojan horse in Europe.
After the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in April of 1949 - four months before the Soviet Union successfully tested its first atomic bomb - the U.S. began to station nuclear weapons in Europe, as many as 7,300 by the early 1970s. [17]
The Pentagon retains as many as 350 nuclear weapons in the five nations mentioned above, a full twenty years after the end of the Cold War.
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