DISSOLVE NATO!

Says former Bolivian President Evo Morales

Evo Morales Argues for a Worldwide Mobilization To Dissolve NATO

“March 15 (EIRNS)—“NATO is a danger to world peace, to security, so we are in the task of reaching agreements with social movements, not only in Latin America, but in all continents, to eliminate it. If nothing is done against NATO, it will become a permanent threat to humanity,” former Bolivian President Evo Morales (2006-2019), reported to Sputnik Mundo, the Spanish site on March 9.

Morales charged that NATO’s “expansionist” and “interventionist” policies were the cause of the Russia-Ukraine crisis, for which he holds the U.S. solely responsible. “The U.S. always provokes wars to sell its weapons, interventions, military bases, to take over natural resources.... It is not only looking for Ukraine’s resources, but also to encircle Russia militarily,” he said.

Morales said the “Runasur,” an organization of various left-wing and indigenist Ibero-American social movements, is leading the effort for “an international campaign to dissolve NATO.” Morales initiated “Runasur” in April 2021, shortly after returning to Bolivia from his exile in Argentina after the fascist coup against his government organized by the U.S. State Department in November 2019.

What, if any, other international forces may have joined the campaign is not yet known to EIR.”

Confirmed here.

Dissolve NATO: an alliance for war

“NATO was founded ostensibly to defend the “free” West against Soviet expansion. Why then did not NATO dissolve when the Soviet Union disintegrated and Warsaw Pact dissolved? The reason is quite simple: because it had become the main vehicle for the coordination of Western military strategy. What follows is a call for peace activists to commit ourselves to raise the demand for the dissolution of NATO.

During the Cold War, NATO developed policies of “first strike” and “first use” of nuclear weapons, it imposed “standardization” on members’ military operations and raised their levels of military spending, and it built up a global military infrastructure of bases and command, control and communications systems.

Since 1990, NATO has expanded, in the number of members, in its influence on policy, and in the scope of its operations. NATO obliges its members to spend disgusting amounts on arms, and its ever-closer cooperation with the European Union has created a powerful policy lobby in favour of increased military spending and weapons “modernization”. All this mainly takes place without much public debate. For instance, outside the peace movement, few people know that the EU’s “rescue loans” to Greece help it maintain a ridiculously high level of military expenditure, including buying new frigates, helicopters, planes and submarines from EU/NATO partners, such as France and Germany.

Today, the military expenditure of all NATO members amounts to more than 70% of global military expenditure. NATO is fighting a major war in Afghanistan, commanding more than 100,000 troops from NATO and non-NATO countries, and is supporting the war in Iraq. Other NATO operations include KFOR in Kosovo, a so-called anti-terror operation in the Mediterranean, and a so-called anti-piracy operation off the Horn of Africa. The primary purpose of NATO today is military intervention.

“Democracy” has been central to NATO’s rhetoric – not to its practices. Historically it has been linked with covert operations usually carried out by agencies of various member states working together. Today it remains anti-democratic: in its objectives – consolidating the unjust global distribution of power: in its influence – imposing its will regardless of contrary opinion: in its policy-making – usually carried out in secret and based on self-justifying analysis: and in its daily operations – a well illustrated in those countries which decided not to participate in the Iraq war and yet whose military infrastructure has been used to support military operations as well as practices of illegal detention and torture at Guantanamo Bay.

Through partnerships and co-operation agreements, NATO has transformed itself into an increasingly global player. It stands for the maintenance of the global status quo, the military protection and enforcement of Western economic, resources and hegemony interests, and as a consequence the exploitation of the countries of the South.” ~ War Resisters International report 03 NOV 2010