The clumsy NATO argument that exposes Poland and others to be the next invaded

@ElentirENG ES 3·05·2022 · 6:46 0

This Friday there was an extraordinary meeting in Brussels of the foreign ministers of the NATO member countries, due to the invasion of Ukraine.

Russia had as many dead in Ukraine in a single week as in Afghanistan in 4 months
The Putin regime continues its campaign of terror and now threatens Finland and Sweden

NATO will not intervene in Ukraine for fear of a larger-scale war

In the statement published by NATO after the meeting it is stated: "Ministers condemned Russia’s brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and expressed solidarity and support for the courage of the Ukrainian people and armed forces." Some nice words that were followed by a Pontius Pilate-style handwashing: "We are not part of this conflict," said Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of the Atlantic Alliance, adding that NATO has "a responsibility to ensure it does not escalate and spread beyond Ukraine. That would be even more devastating and dangerous."

Outrage in Ukraine: "it has given 'green light' to bomb more Ukrainian cities and towns"

This NATO statement is its response to the Ukrainian government's request to establish a no-fly zone over that country, to prevent the Russians from continuing to bomb the Ukrainian civilian population. Stoltenberg's words provoked the logical indignation of Volodímir Zelenski, who has denounced that the Alliance "has given the 'green light' to bomb more Ukrainian cities and towns, refusing to create a no-fly zone."

"Knowing that new attacks and casualties are imminent, NATO has deliberately decided not to close the sky over Ukraine," the Ukrainian president lamented, noting that this NATO summit "shows that not everyone has the struggle for freedom as goal number one." Stoltenberg has responded by saying: "We understand the desperation, but if we do that we will end up having an all-out war in Europe, involving more countries and creating more suffering."

A clumsy argument exposing Georgia, Moldova, Finland and Sweden

Zelensky has reason to be outraged and disappointed in NATO. The clumsy argument put forward yesterday by the Alliance not only leaves Ukraine at the feet of the Russians, but other countries as well. Tomorrow or the day after, Putin could do exactly the same with Georgia and with Moldova, because he knows that the Alliance will sit back for fear of a larger-scale war. We could add Finland and Sweden to the list of possible victims of that fear. Both nations are also not NATO members and have already been threatened by the Putin regime. Why should NATO worry about a massacre of Finns and Swedes at the hands of the Russians, if it is already allowing a massacre of Ukrainians with the excuse that they are not part of its club?

NATO fear also exposes Poland and the Baltic republics

But in addition, this message of fear also exposes the Baltic republics to being attacked by Russia. If, out of fear of a larger-scale conflict, NATO allows Putin to crush Ukraine, which is one of the largest countries in Europe, who guarantees that NATO will take a different position if Putin invades smaller countries like Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia? Would such an invasion make up for a full-scale war? And if it wouldn't pay to get into such a war for those little republics, would NATO be willing to start another world war for Poland? The last one began with a German-Soviet invasion of that country, and ended with the Polish people subjected to the yoke of one of those two invaders, Stalin, an infamy allowed by the Western Allies.

The Alliance seems to have forgotten history and its founding commitments

What is very difficult to understand is this theory that what happens outside the limits of NATO does not affect the Atlantic Alliance, no matter how much it puts the security of Europe in such serious danger as the invasion of Ukraine, after of NATO officially intervening in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, countries that were also not members of NATO.

This theory is even more incomprehensible when reviewing the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949, the founding charter of NATO, in whose preamble its members declared themselves "determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation of their peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law." However, when push comes to shove, NATO trembles before a tyrant who threatens the peace and security of Europe just as Hitler did, and justifies its inaction with the same fear that led the British and French to allow the tyrant The Nazis took over Austria and the Sudetenland in 1938 and the rest of Czechoslovakia in 1939.

If the Allies had stopped Hitler in time, they would surely have prevented the long and bloody world war that followed, when Germany had fewer territories and fewer resources under its power. But as Churchill pointed out, "we have preferred dishonor to war. We will have dishonor and also war." Now NATO has chosen the dishonor of crossing its arms in the face of the suffering of the Ukrainian people, as it did before the Russian invasions of Georgia (2008) and Crimea (2014), for fear of a larger-scale war that Putin will end up declaring late or later, when the price of yielding to his whims is already unbearable for the free world. It is sad to see how little our rulers have learned from history.

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Photo: NATO.