A Comprehensive Journey through The History of The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and Libya will Convincingly Demonstrate that The World has more to fear from NATO than from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi!
Libya, a developing nation in North Africa, which has set an ideal example of development, is witnessing a downfall; economically, politically and socially. This is because ‘rebels’ (with an ever-present tribal mentality to overthrow Gaddafi without realising the severity of the measures they have adopted), who are aided and equipped by NATO forces are destroying Libyan oil fields & buildings, ruining existing infrastructure and killing innocent civilians. A nation built with hard earned wealth (Americans or Europeans didn’t gift Libya the wealth it has earned, in fact they tried everything possible to stop Libya), is now being sent back to the stone age with naive impunity.
In its last 43 years of history under the leadership of dictator Gaddafi whom NATO now wants to remove badly, Libya hasn’t met with such a catastrophe. To a sane observer, it is not difficult to realise that if Gaddafi is bad for Libya, then what NATO strikes are gifting to Libyans in the name of ‘liberation’ is even worse. However, this is not the first time that the world’s most influential collective defence force NATO has endangered world peace. History bears testimony to the blunders that NATO has committed and the wars that it has waged, which are not only unjust but also unpardonable for mankind.
After being formed on April 4, 1949 based on the North Atlantic Treaty with a simple ideology to keep the “Russians out, Americans in and Germans down”, as aptly stated by the first NATO Secretary General Lord Hastings Lionel “Pug” Ismay, NATO basic structural premise was its key fault. Its biggest failure has been in defining its relationship with Russia. The Soviet Union expressed its desire to join NATO in 1954, but the proposal was rejected, suspecting that the Soviets were conspiring to weaken NATO. But surprisingly, in the next year, it accepted West Germany on May 9, 1955 as a member to resist Russian military might. This move not only formally started the Cold War but also resulted in the creation of the Warsaw Pact signed on May 14, 1955 by the Soviet Union, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, and East Germany – a pact to counter NATO, which apparently hasn’t even matured with age. As recently as in 2007, NATO again slighted Russia with its announcement of plans to install a defence system with interceptor missiles in Poland and Czech Republic to defend the nations against Russia. Yes, one can understand that Putin loves to attack nations faster than talk (Georgia, an iconic case study), but to deliberately go overboard in announcing the missile systems was a critical geopolitical blunder.
In its last 43 years of history under the leadership of dictator Gaddafi whom NATO now wants to remove badly, Libya hasn’t met with such a catastrophe. To a sane observer, it is not difficult to realise that if Gaddafi is bad for Libya, then what NATO strikes are gifting to Libyans in the name of ‘liberation’ is even worse. However, this is not the first time that the world’s most influential collective defence force NATO has endangered world peace. History bears testimony to the blunders that NATO has committed and the wars that it has waged, which are not only unjust but also unpardonable for mankind.
After being formed on April 4, 1949 based on the North Atlantic Treaty with a simple ideology to keep the “Russians out, Americans in and Germans down”, as aptly stated by the first NATO Secretary General Lord Hastings Lionel “Pug” Ismay, NATO basic structural premise was its key fault. Its biggest failure has been in defining its relationship with Russia. The Soviet Union expressed its desire to join NATO in 1954, but the proposal was rejected, suspecting that the Soviets were conspiring to weaken NATO. But surprisingly, in the next year, it accepted West Germany on May 9, 1955 as a member to resist Russian military might. This move not only formally started the Cold War but also resulted in the creation of the Warsaw Pact signed on May 14, 1955 by the Soviet Union, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, and East Germany – a pact to counter NATO, which apparently hasn’t even matured with age. As recently as in 2007, NATO again slighted Russia with its announcement of plans to install a defence system with interceptor missiles in Poland and Czech Republic to defend the nations against Russia. Yes, one can understand that Putin loves to attack nations faster than talk (Georgia, an iconic case study), but to deliberately go overboard in announcing the missile systems was a critical geopolitical blunder.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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