The 67 nations involved include ones on all six populated continents. Why the world stubbornly persists in ignoring the evolution of an ever-expanding international military alliance is beyond my ability to comprehend.
====
NATO engages with partners to help shape the next Strategic Concept
37 participating partners: Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Egypt, Finland, Georgia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, the Republic of Korea, Kyrgyz Republic, Kuwait, Malta, Mauritania, the Republic of Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, New Zealand, Pakistan, Qatar, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan.
On 31 January 2022, NATO hosted a workshop that brought Allies and 37 partner countries together to share views and ideas for the next Strategic Concept. The world has fundamentally changed in the past decade so the time has come to update the Strategic Concept, which is second only to the Alliance’s founding treaty as a source of guidance for NATO’s strategy and initiatives.
[T]he Secretary General is consulting with Allies, partners and other stakeholders, including academics and the private sector….
….As outlined recently by the Secretary General, today’s threats are not restrained by geography or borders. What happens far away matters for the Euro-Atlantic region, and working with partners and taking a more global approach is an absolute necessity, he explained.
***
Over many decades, NATO has built up a large network of valuable partnerships with non-member countries from the Euro-Atlantic area, the Middle East and North Africa, the Mediterranean and across the globe. These partners have contributed significantly to NATO’s operations, exercises, training, capability development processes, and research and experimentation in new areas. Allies are committed to maintaining active dialogue with partners.
37 participating partners: Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Egypt, Finland, Georgia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, the Republic of Korea, Kyrgyz Republic, Kuwait, Malta, Mauritania, the Republic of Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, New Zealand, Pakistan, Qatar, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan.
Black: NATO members
Pink: Partnership for Peace members
Red: Mediterranean Dialogue and Istanbul Cooperation Initiative members
Green: Partners Across the Globe
The black mark east of Colombia is French Guiana.
In answer to your question it is because these “leaders” are being paid off with bribe money from the US. Dollars are being created in thin air by the Federal Reserve, given to the Treasury and the distributed throughout the world. There are no more governments by the people in the West, they’re all controlled by corporations. Classic definition of fascism. Even money created ostensibly for infrastructure in the US is being shunted for nefarious purposes, I’m sure.
LikeLike
Seven and a half billion people are bought off by the Federal Reserve Bank? I wasn’t referring to the governments of NATO nations – obviously. How about one single so-called peace activist mentioning it. One.
LikeLike
You are the “one” peace activist among the 7.5 billion.
LikeLike
Actually, among the rash of peace organizations that have largely ignored NATO expansion and wars over the past 23 years but now sense the gravity of the current crisis by speaking out (or cannot maintain any credibility by continuing to ignore it), one – Black Alliance for Peace – has called for the abolition of NATO, and has denounced the entire U.S./NATO/EU triad. Hats off to them.
LikeLike
I understand your anguish and disgust with the general population. At least YOU can rest at night knowing that you’re trying.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks. I’m not being personal about it. If they weren’t at least implicitly supporting NATO themselves, the Kremlin’s Peskov and the Foreign Ministry’s Zakharova should print the article and list I posted and wave it at a press conference, saying: So NATO is a defensive alliance? So it only exists to defend Europe from Russian aggression? In the Persian Gulf? In North Africa? In South America? In the South Pacific? Ireland? South Korea? Etc.
Instead three days ago TASS reported Lavrov saying (its headline) Ukraine Not Ready for NATO Yet. YET! As though at some point it will be – and that’s just fine with him.
When El Pais released the Western response to Russia’s demands, Russia could no longer go along with the demand from Blinken that they not make it public. It is public now. So what does TASS report today? West Suggests Russia Leave Crimea, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria. Suggests? You can read the document on the link I provided for it this morning. The U.S. and NATO didn’t suggest anything. They ordered Russia to evacuate those four areas. Russia gives the West an ultimatum, the West slaps it in the face and gives an ultimatum in return. And the world applauds the negotiations that have brought the world to this impasse. https://tass.com/world/1396411
The principle to me is very simple: anyone who doesn’t demand the abolition of NATO itself is ipso facto an abettor of it.
LikeLike
The US conscripting more cannon fodder to fight its wars. Anything but having to fight a peer country on its own. The US is really on the back foot now. Looking at the last 20 years of US military doctrine makes it quite clear that the US doens’t have a fighting doctrine,, or certainly no relevant one. Hasty rehashes will make no difference to that. It is apparent that the US have massively underestimated Russian advances in weaponry, despite being aware of these weapons. It dosn’t matter how many countries the US strong arms into an ‘alliance’ there is only one salient fact. Can the US protect itself from Russia in either conventional or nuclear terms. The answer to that question is no. So how do US tax payers feel about that after spending upwards of $1 trillion per year on ‘defence’ and having spent $3 – 4 trillion on its twentieth century wars. America is looking pretty stupid right now and very weak.
LikeLike
In your view, when can we expect the U.S. and NATO to capitulate?
LikeLike
They will not capitulate. They will engage in a nuclear war if need be. NATO countries are like the wife who kills herself but sets it up to make it look like her husband did it.
LikeLike
You’re correct, of course. That’s the danger of it. I was being sarcastic
LikeLike
Military alliances are part of the human condition. With technology comes globalized military alliances. Seems very similar to WW1 European royal alliances. Incompetence is part of leadership and the proletariat are easily misled , aided by new media technology. When the fighting is over there will be general hand wringing and resolves to never let it happen again, at which point it starts all over again.
LikeLike