{"id":35749,"date":"2018-07-06T07:39:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T12:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35749"},"modified":"2018-07-06T07:44:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T12:44:31","slug":"no-need-for-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35749","title":{"rendered":"No Need For Nato"},"content":{"rendered":"
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No Need For Nato<\/a><\/h3>\n
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A NATO summit approaches that brings Donald Trump to Europe and then on to these shores, and brings the usual clamour for more of the taxpayers\u2019 money to be given to arms manufacturers.<\/p>\n

Yet NATO is a demonstrably useless institution. It\u2019s largest ever active military deployment, for 12 years in Afghanistan, resulted in military defeat throughout 80% of the country, the installation of a pocket regime whose scrip does not run further than you can throw the scrip, and a vast outflow of heroin to finance the criminal underworld throughout NATO countries.<\/p>\n

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\nLook at this chart closely, and marvel at the fact that the NATO occupation began in early 2002<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In invading Afghanistan and boosting the heroin warlords, NATO countries destabilised themselves<\/p>\n

NATO\u2019s second biggest military operation ever was the attack on Libya, where NATO carried out an incredible 14,200 bombing sorties using high explosive munitions and devastated Libya\u2019s infrastructure and entire cities. Here is Sirte after NATO \u201cliberation\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The direct result of the devastation of Libya and destruction of its government infrastructure has been the massive untrammelled exodus of migrants, especially from West Africa, through Libya and across the Mediterranean on boats. This has not only led to the appalling exploitation and tragic death of many migrants, it has fundamentally weakened the governments and indeed governing public ethos of European NATO member states and led to a right wing populist surge throughout much of the EU.<\/p>\n

In short, in destroying Libya, NATO members destabilised themselves.<\/p>\n

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\nThe direct result of NATO\u2019s destruction of Libya.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now NATO is focusing once more on the original \u201cthreat\u201d it was supposed to combat, a Russian invasion of Western Europe.<\/p>\n

Russia has absolutely no intention of invading Western Europe. The very notion is ludicrous. It does not require NATO to deter a threat that does not exist.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No Need For Nato A NATO summit approaches that brings Donald Trump to Europe and then on to these shores, and brings the usual clamour for more of the taxpayers\u2019 money to be given to arms manufacturers. Yet NATO is a demonstrably useless institution. It\u2019s largest ever active military deployment, for 12 years in Afghanistan, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2487,14160,525,553],"class_list":["post-35749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-afghanistan","tag-craig-murray","tag-military","tag-nato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35750,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35749\/revisions\/35750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}