NATO ndi Nkhondo Yonenedweratu

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Wolemba Medea Benjamin ndi Nicolas JS Davies, World BEYOND War, June 27, 2022

Pamene NATO ichititsa Msonkhano wake ku Madrid pa June 28-30, nkhondo ku Ukraine ikuyambira. Pamsonkhano woyamba wa June 22 ndi Politico, Mlembi Wamkulu wa NATO Jens Stoltenberg kudzikuza za momwe NATO idakonzekera bwino kumenya nkhondoyi chifukwa, adati: "Uku kunali kuwukira komwe kunanenedweratu, zomwe zidadziwikiratu ndi akatswiri athu azamisala." Stoltenberg amalankhula za maulosi anzeru zaku Western m'miyezi yomwe ikubwera kuukira kwa February 24, pomwe Russia idanenetsa kuti sidzaukira. Stoltenberg, komabe, akadakhala akunena za maulosi omwe adabwerera osati miyezi ingapo isanachitike, koma zaka zambiri.

Stoltenberg akanatha kuyang'ana kuyambira pomwe USSR idatha, ndikuwunikiranso dipatimenti Yaboma ya 1990. memo chenjezo kuti kupanga "mgwirizano wotsutsana ndi Soviet" wa mayiko a NATO m'malire a USSR "kungawonekere koyipa kwambiri ndi Soviets."

Stoltenberg akanatha kulingalira za zotsatira za malonjezo onse ophwanyidwa ndi akuluakulu akumadzulo kuti NATO sidzakula chakum'mawa. Chitsimikizo chotchuka cha Mlembi wa Boma James Baker kwa Purezidenti wa Soviet Gorbachev chinali chitsanzo chimodzi chabe. Declassified US, Soviet, Germany, British ndi French zikalata zolembedwa ndi National Security Archive zimawulula zambiri zomwe atsogoleri akumadzulo adatsimikizira Gorbachev ndi akuluakulu ena aku Soviet panthawi yonse ya mgwirizano wa Germany mu 1990 ndi 1991.

Mlembi Wamkulu wa NATO akanatha kukumbukira kalata ya 1997 ndi akatswiri odziwika bwino a 50 akunja, akuitanira Zolinga za Purezidenti Clinton zokulitsa NATO cholakwika cha "mbiri yakale" chomwe "chingasokoneze bata ku Europe." Koma Clinton anali atadzipereka kale kuyitanira Poland mu kalabu, akuti chifukwa chodandaula kuti kunena "ayi" ku Poland kungamutayitse mavoti ovuta aku Poland ndi America ku Midwest pachisankho cha 1996.

Stoltenberg akanatha kukumbukira zomwe zinanenedwa ndi George Kennan, bambo waluntha wa ndondomeko yosungira katundu ku US panthawi ya Cold War, pamene NATO inapita patsogolo ndikuphatikiza Poland, Czech Republic ndi Hungary mu 1998. Mu New York Times kuyankhulana, Kennan adatcha kuwonjezeka kwa NATO "kulakwitsa kwakukulu" komwe kunali chiyambi cha Cold War yatsopano, ndipo anachenjeza kuti a Russia "pang'onopang'ono adzachitapo kanthu."

Mayiko enanso asanu ndi aŵiri a Kum’maŵa kwa Ulaya atagwirizana ndi NATO mu 2004, kuphatikizapo maiko a Baltic a Estonia, Latvia ndi Lithuaniaich, amene kwenikweni anali mbali ya dziko lakale la Soviet Union, chidanicho chinawonjezereka. Stoltenberg akanangoganizira mawu a Purezidenti Putin mwiniwakeyo, yemwe nthawi zambiri adanena kuti kukulitsa kwa NATO kumayimira "chiwopsezo chachikulu." Mu 2007, ku Munich Security Conference, Putin anafunsa, "Kodi zidachitika ndi chiyani pazitsimikiziro zomwe anzathu akumadzulo adapanga pambuyo pa kutha kwa Pangano la Warsaw?"

Koma unali msonkhano wa 2008 wa NATO, pomwe NATO idanyalanyaza kutsutsa koopsa kwa Russia ndikulonjeza kuti Ukraine ilowa nawo NATO, zomwe zidayimitsa mabelu.

William Burns, yemwe anali kazembe wa US ku Moscow, adatumiza mwachangu memo kwa Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "Kulowa kwa Chiyukireniya ku NATO ndikowoneka bwino kwambiri kwa anthu osankhika aku Russia (osati a Putin okha)," adalemba. "Pazaka zopitilira ziwiri ndi theka ndikukambirana ndi osewera akulu aku Russia, kuyambira oponya zida m'malo amdima a Kremlin mpaka otsutsa kwambiri a Putin, sindinapezebe aliyense amene amawona Ukraine ku NATO ngati china chilichonse osati mwachindunji. kulimbana ndi zofuna za Russia. "

M'malo momvetsa kuopsa kwa kuwoloka "ofiira kwambiri kuposa onse ofiira," Purezidenti George W. Bush adalimbikira ndikukankhira kutsutsa mkati mwa NATO kuti alengeze, mu 2008, kuti Ukraine idzapatsidwadi umembala, koma pa tsiku losatchulidwa. Stoltenberg akadatha kutsata mkangano womwe udalipo ku Msonkhano wa NATO uwo-Msonkhano womwe udachitika kale 2014 Euromaidan kulanda kulanda Crimea kapena kulephera kwa Mapangano a Minsk kuthetsa nkhondo yapachiweniweni ku Donbas.

Ndithudi iyi inali nkhondo imene inaloseredwa. Zaka XNUMX za machenjezo ndi maulosi zinakhala zolondola kwambiri. Koma onse sanamveredwe ndi bungwe lomwe linayesa kupambana kwake kokha malinga ndi kukula kwake kosatha m'malo mwa chitetezo chomwe chinalonjeza koma mobwerezabwereza chinalephera kupereka, makamaka kwa ozunzidwa ndi nkhanza zake ku Serbia, Afghanistan ndi Libya.

Tsopano dziko la Russia layambitsa nkhondo yankhanza, yosaloledwa yomwe yachotsa mamiliyoni ambiri osalakwa a ku Ukraine m'nyumba zawo, kupha ndi kuvulaza zikwi za anthu wamba ndipo ikupha miyoyo ya asilikali oposa zana limodzi tsiku lililonse. NATO yatsimikiza mtima kutumiza zida zankhondo zambiri kuti zilimbikitse nkhondo, pomwe mamiliyoni padziko lonse lapansi akuvutika ndi kugwa kwachuma komwe kukukulirakulira.

Sitingabwerere ndikusintha chisankho changozi cha Russia cholanda Ukraine kapena zolakwika za NATO. Koma atsogoleri aku Western atha kupanga zisankho zanzeru zamtsogolo. Izi ziphatikizepo kudzipereka kuti dziko la Ukraine likhale losalowerera ndale, losakhala la NATO, zomwe Purezidenti Zelenskyy mwiniwake adagwirizana nazo kumayambiriro kwa nkhondoyo.

Ndipo, m'malo mopezerapo mwayi pavutoli kuti likukulirakulirabe, NATO iyenera kuyimitsa zonse zatsopano kapena zomwe zikudikirira kupempha umembala mpaka vuto lomwe lilipo litathetsedwa. Izi ndi zomwe bungwe loona zachitetezo lingachite, mosiyana kwambiri ndi mwayi wamgwirizano wankhondo wankhanzawu.

Koma tidzipangira tokha kutengera zomwe NATO idachita kale. M'malo moyitanitsa kusagwirizana kumbali zonse kuti athetse kukhetsa mwazi, Mgwirizano wowopsawu udzalonjeza kuti zidzapereka zida zopanda malire kuti zithandize Ukraine "kupambana" nkhondo yosagonjetseka, ndipo idzapitiriza kufunafuna ndi kugwiritsa ntchito mwayi uliwonse kuti iwononge ndalamazo. za moyo wa anthu ndi chitetezo cha dziko.

Ngakhale kuti dziko lapansi likuwona momwe angachitire Russia chifukwa cha zoopsa zomwe akuchita ku Ukraine, mamembala a NATO akuyenera kudziyesa okha moona mtima. Ayenera kuzindikira kuti njira yokhayo yothetsera chidani chopangidwa ndi mgwirizano wogawikanawu ndikuchotsa NATO ndikuisintha ndi dongosolo lophatikizana lomwe limapereka chitetezo kumayiko onse aku Europe ndi anthu, popanda kuwopseza Russia kapena kutsatira United States mwachimbulimbuli. zilakolako zake zosakhutitsidwa ndi zofananira, za hegemonic.

Medea Benjamin ndi amene amapanga CODEPINK kwa Mtendere, ndi wolemba mabuku angapo, kuphatikizapo Ufumu wa osalungama: Pambuyo pa US-Saudi Connection.

Nicolas JS Davies ndi wofufuza ndi CODEPINK, komanso wolemba wa Magazi Pa Manja Athu: Kuthamangira ku America ndi Kuwonongedwa kwa Iraq.