I-NATO kunye neMfazwe eyaxelwa kwangaphambili

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NguMedea Benjamin noNicolas JS Davies, World BEYOND War, UJuni 27, 2022

Njengoko i-NATO ibamba iNgqungquthela yayo eMadrid ngoJuni 28-30, imfazwe yaseUkraine ithatha indawo ephambili. Ngexesha leNgqungquthela ye-22 kaJuni intetho kunye nePolitico, uNobhala-Jikelele we-NATO uJens Stoltenberg. ziqhayisa malunga nendlela i-NATO eyayiwulungiselele kakuhle ngayo lo mlo kuba, wathi: "Olu luhlaselo olwaluxelwe kwangaphambili, lwabonwa kwangaphambili ziinkonzo zethu zobuntlola." UStoltenberg wayethetha malunga nezibikezelo zobuntlola zaseNtshona kwiinyanga ezikhokelela ekuhlaselweni kwe-24 kaFebruwari, xa iRashiya yagxininisa ukuba ayiyi kuhlasela. UStoltenberg, nangona kunjalo, wayenokuthetha malunga neengqikelelo eziye zabuyela emva kungekuphela nje kwiinyanga ngaphambi kohlaselo, kodwa amashumi eminyaka.

I-Stoltenberg yayinokukhangela yonke indlela emva xa i-USSR yayichithwa, kwaye yagxininisa iSebe leSizwe le-1990. memo Isilumkiso sokuba ukudala "umfelandawonye ochasene neSoviet" yamazwe e-NATO ecaleni komda we-USSR "kuya kubonwa kakubi kakhulu ziiSoviets."

I-Stoltenberg yayinokubonakalisa imiphumo yazo zonke izithembiso ezaphukileyo ngamagosa aseNtshona ukuba i-NATO ayiyi kwandisa ngasempuma. Isiqinisekiso esidumileyo sikaSosiba weLizwe uJames Baker kuMongameli waseSoviet uGorbachev sasingumzekelo nje omnye. I-US, iSoviet, iJamani, iBritane kunye nesiFrentshi yachithwa amaxwebhu iposwe nguVimba woKhuseleko weSizwe uveza iziqinisekiso ezininzi zeenkokeli zaseNtshona eziya eGorbachev nakwamanye amagosa aseSoviet ngexesha lonke lokumanyana kweJamani ngo-1990 kunye no-1991.

Unobhala-Jikelele we-NATO wayenokukhumbula ileta ye-1997 ngeengcali ze-50 ezibalaseleyo zomgaqo-nkqubo wangaphandle, ebiza Izicwangciso zikaMongameli uClinton zokwandisa i-NATO impazamo yomgaqo-nkqubo "wobungakanani bembali" obunokuthi "buphazamise uzinzo lwaseYurophu." Kodwa uClinton wayesele ezibophelele ngokumema iPoland kwiklabhu, kuxelwe ukuba exhalabile ukuba ukuthi "hayi" ePoland kuya kuphulukana naye ngamavoti abalulekileyo asePoland-Amerika kuMbindi-ntshona kunyulo luka-1996.

UStoltenberg wayenokukhumbula ukubikezelwa okwenziwe nguGeorge Kennan, uyise oyingqondi womgaqo-nkqubo wokugcinwa kwe-US ngexesha leMfazwe yeCold, xa i-NATO yaqhubela phambili kwaye idibanisa iPoland, iRiphabhliki yaseCzech kunye neHungary kwi-1998. Kwi-New York Times udliwanondlebe, uKennan wabiza ukwanda kwe-NATO "impazamo embi" eyaphawula ukuqala kweMfazwe entsha yeCold, kwaye walumkisa ukuba amaRashiya "aya kusabela ngokuthe ngcembe."

Emva kokuba amanye amazwe asixhenxe aseMpuma Yurophu ethelele iNATO ngowama-2004, kuquka amazwe aseBaltic ase-Estonia, iLatvia neLithuaniaich, awayeyinxalenye yelizwe elalisakuba yiSoviet Union, intiyo yanda ngakumbi. UStoltenberg ngewayesanda kuqwalasela amazwi kaMongameli uPutin ngokwakhe, owathi kumaxesha amaninzi ukwandiswa kwe-NATO kubonisa "ingqumbo enkulu." Kwi-2007, kwiNkomfa yoKhuseleko yaseMunich, uPutin Xa ebuzwa, "Kwenzeka ntoni kwiziqinisekiso zamaqabane ethu aseNtshona azenzayo emva kokuchithwa kweSivumelwano saseWarsaw?"

Kodwa yayiyiNgqungquthela ye-2008 ye-NATO, xa i-NATO yayingahoyi inkcaso ekrakra yaseRussia kwaye yathembisa ukuba i-Ukraine iya kujoyina i-NATO, eyathi yavula iintsimbi.

UWilliam Burns, owayengunozakuzaku wase-US eMoscow, wathumela ngokukhawuleza memo kuNobhala weLizwe uCondoleezza Rice. "Ukungena kwe-Ukrainian kwi-NATO yeyona nto iqaqambileyo kuzo zonke ii-redlines zaseRashiya (kungekhona nje uPutin)," wabhala. "Ngaphezu kweminyaka emibini enesiqingatha yeencoko kunye nabadlali abaphambili baseRussia, ukusuka kwi-knuckle-draggers kwindawo emnyama yaseKremlin ukuya kwabagxeki ababukhali benkululeko bakaPutin, andikafumani nabani na ojonga iUkraine kwiNATO njengayo nayiphi na enye into ngaphandle kokuthe ngqo. umngeni kwizinto zaseRashiya.”

Esikhundleni sokuqonda ingozi yokuwela "eyona nto iqaqambileyo kuzo zonke i-redlines," uMongameli uGeorge W. Bush waqhubeka kwaye watyhala ngenkcaso yangaphakathi ngaphakathi kwe-NATO ukuvakalisa, kwi-2008, ukuba i-Ukraine iya kunikwa ubulungu ngokwenene, kodwa ngomhla ongachazwanga. UStoltenberg ngewayeyilandelile le ngquzulwano ikhoyo ngoku emva kweNgqungquthela ye-NATO-iNgqungquthela eyaqhubeka kwangaphambi kobhukuqo-mbuso lwe-Euromaidan lwango-2014 okanye ukuthinjwa kweRussia yiCrimea okanye ukusilela kweMvumelwano yaseMinsk ukuphelisa imfazwe yamakhaya eDonbas.

Ngokwenene le yayiyimfazwe eyayixelwe kwangaphambili. Iminyaka engamashumi amathathu yezilumkiso kunye neziprofeto ziye zachaneka ngokupheleleyo. Kodwa zonke zihambe zingahoywa liziko elilinganisa impumelelo yalo kuphela ngokokwandiswa kwalo okungapheliyo endaweni yokhuseleko oluthenjisiweyo kodwa lasilela ngokuphindaphindiweyo ukuzisa, ubukhulu becala kumaxhoba ohlaselo lwalo eSerbia, Afghanistan naseLibya.

Ngoku iRashiya iqalise imfazwe ekhohlakeleyo nengekho mthethweni eye yancothula izigidi zabantu abamsulwa baseUkraine kumakhaya abo, yabulala yaza yenzakalisa amawaka abemi kwaye ithatha ubomi bamajoni aseUkraine angaphezu kwekhulu yonke imihla. I-NATO izimisele ukuqhubeka ithumela izixa ezikhulu zezixhobo zokuphembelela imfazwe, ngelixa izigidi kwihlabathi liphela zithwaxwa kukuwohloka koqoqosho okukhulayo kungquzulwano.

Asikwazi ukubuyela umva kwaye sihlehlise isigqibo esibi saseRussia sokuhlasela iUkraine okanye iimpazamo zembali zeNATO. Kodwa iinkokeli zaseNtshona zinokwenza izigqibo zobulumko eziya phambili. Ezo kufuneka zibandakanye ukuzibophelela ekuvumeleni i-Ukraine ukuba ingathathi cala, ingeyiyo eye-NATO, into awathi uMongameli uZelenskyy ngokwakhe wavuma ngayo umgaqo kwasekuqaleni kwemfazwe.

Kwaye, endaweni yokusebenzisa le ngxaki ukuba yandise nangakumbi, i-NATO kufuneka irhoxise zonke izicelo zobulungu ezitsha okanye ezisalindileyo de le ngxaki ikhoyo isonjululwe. Yiloo nto kanye enokwenziwa ngumbutho wokhuseleko wokwenene, ngokwahlukileyo kumathuba okuziphatha kolu manyano lomkhosi lundlongondlongo.

Kodwa siya kwenza uqikelelo lwethu ngokusekelwe kwindlela yokuziphatha yangaphambili ye-NATO. Endaweni yokubiza ukulungelelana kuwo onke amacala ukuze kupheliswe ukuphalala kwegazi, le Alliance inobungozi iya kuthembisa ukubonelela ngezixhobo ezingapheliyo ukunceda i-Ukraine "iphumelele" imfazwe engenakunqotshwa, kwaye iya kuqhubeka ifuna kwaye ibambe onke amathuba okuzibhokoxa ngeendleko. yobomi bomntu kunye nokhuseleko lwehlabathi.

Ngelixa ilizwe limisela indlela yokuphendula iRussia ngezinto ezoyikisayo ezenzayo eUkraine, amalungu e-NATO kufuneka azibonakalise ngokunyanisekileyo. Bafanele baqonde ukuba esona sisombululo sisisigxina kuphela sobutshaba obuveliswa yile manyano ikhethekileyo, iyantlukwano kukudiliza i-NATO kwaye endaweni yayo ngesakhelo esibandakanyayo esibonelela ngokhuseleko kuwo onke amazwe aseYurophu nakubantu, ngaphandle kokusongela iRussia okanye ukulandela ngokungaboniyo iUnited States. amabhongo ayo anganelisekiyo kunye anachronistic, hegemonic.

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