One of the major reasons the New World Order strategists were determined to put their man, Yushchenko, in control of Ukraine was to insure that Ukraine becomes part of NATO, now a military alliance with an offensive military doctrine used by the United States for its grandiose dreams of global domination. #msg-4646886 #msg-4674009
After the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, NATO became increasingly irrelevant as a defensive alliance. With the purpose of using the Alliance for its worldwide ambitions, the United States pushed towards a redefinition of the NATO doctrine. NATO should not only serve for the defence of the territorial integrity of its members but also for “humanitarian interventions” outside its territory.
This new strategy was put into practice in the war against Yugoslavia . There, for the first time, NATO intervened outside the territory of the Treaty. This “new strategic concept” was ratified afterwards at a summit in Washington at the end of April 1999. NATO's so-called "humanitarian war" in Yugoslavia was sold to the public as a means of settling conflicts between ethnic groups, while its real purpose was to expand the spheres of influence of its member states and their corporate allies.
Recent escalation of ethnic contradictions in Kosovo (March 2004) shows the complete failure of NATO's “humanitarian” occupation. Kosovo's remaining minorities have no freedom of movement, live in ghettos and face continuous terrorist attacks and the destruction of their property.
The Prague summit of November 2002 reinserted NATO in the United States ' evolving strategy of world domination, now called ‘war on terrorism' . NATO is now being transformed from a “defence” organisation (1949) over a “defence and security” organisation (1999) towards an “anti-terrorism” organisation. #msg-2898066
The following text lists only some of the areas in which NATO is to be involved.
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US laments Europe's military shortfalls
BRUSSELS (AFP) Jan 10, 2005 The United States is worried by a growing gap in military power between it and European allies, at a time when NATO is battling to transform and expand its role, the US ambassador to NATO said Monday.
While praising a small group of European countries -- including Britain and France -- for boosting armed firepower, he said the majority were either leaving defence budgets unchanged or spending less in real terms on military resources.
"At a time when the need for our military forces is growing this is a disturbing trend," said Nicholas Burns, in a speech to a Brussels think tank, the European Policy Centre.
He pointed out that while the United States spends over 420 billion dollars on national defence, the combined defence budgets of the other 25 NATO allies was less than half that.
"That capabilities gap is worrisome," he said, in particular at time when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has expanded well beyond its Cold War-era European theatre of operations.
The United States is also pushing for NATO to expand its missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, while maintaining significant forces in the Balkans and boosting its ties in central Asia and the Middle East.
"If we are going to be in Afghaninistan, Iraq, Kovoso, Bosnia, if were going to have an outreach to the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, you need forces, well-equipped, well-trained forces," he said.
Other countries which have either boosted defence spending or reformed their armed forces to make military resources more useful include Poland, Denmark, the Czech Republic and Norway, he said.
The key problem was that European forces were less deployable than their US counterparts, he said, citing estimates that 75 percent of the United States 2.4 million-strong army could be rushed overseas, while only 3-5 percent of Europe's could, even if it has similar numbers of soldiers.
"They're not trained sufficiently or equipped or funded," he said. "This is our biggest problem in NATO. We have an inability generating a large number of forces," he said.
"At some point ... the rubber needs to meet the road. At some point you have to have the capabilities to back up your political ambitions and your rhetoric. And this growing disparity in capabilities worries us greatly."
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