An op-ed by Schiller Institute analyst Stephan Ossenkopp was published in today’s China Daily. The article, “NATO remains an imperial anachronism,” points to the applications of Sweden and Finland to join NATO as being “yet another staged provocation against Russia.” Ossenkopp quotes Joe Biden as saying that the renewed NATO would have the clarity and conviction to lead the world. “But where is NATO supposed to lead the world?”
Supposedly a defensive alliance, NATO was created six years before the Warsaw Pact it was supposedly created to defend against. It was created a few years after Winston Churchill’s “iron curtain” speech in Fulton, Missouri, where the British leader called for militarizing the United Nations! “The United Nations Organization must immediately begin to be equipped with an international armed force,” to be placed under the control of a “world organization,” doubtless to be dominated by the US and UK. “Neither the sure prevention of war, nor the continuous rise of the world organization will be gained without what I have called the fraternal association of the English-speaking peoples. This means a special relationship between the British Commonwealth and Empire and the United States.”
The UN was not militarized as Churchill wished, but NATO was created in 1949. With the accession of West Germany in 1955, the Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact.
