I-NATO kanye Nempi Yabikezelwa

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NguMedea Benjamin noNicolas JS Davies, World BEYOND War, Juni 27, i-2022

Njengoba i-NATO ibamba iNgqungquthela yayo eMadrid ngoJuni 28-30, impi yase-Ukraine ithatha indawo enkulu. Phakathi nenkulumo yangaphambi kweNgqungquthela kaJuni 22 nePolitico, uNobhala Jikelele we-NATO uJens Stoltenberg. ukuziqhenya mayelana nokuthi i-NATO yayiyilungiselele kahle kangakanani le mpi ngoba, uthe: "Lokhu bekuwukuhlasela okwabikezelwa, okwabonwa kusengaphambili abezobunhloli." UStoltenberg ubekhuluma ngezibikezelo zezobunhloli zaseNtshonalanga ezinyangeni eziholela ekuhlaselweni kukaFebhuwari 24, lapho iRussia iphikelela ukuthi ngeke ihlasele. Nokho, u-Stoltenberg kungenzeka ukuthi wayekhuluma ngezibikezelo ezibuyele emuva hhayi ezinyangeni ezimbalwa ngaphambi kokuhlasela, kodwa amashumi eminyaka.

UStoltenberg wayengabheka emuva lapho i-USSR ihlakazwa, futhi yagqamisa uMnyango Wezwe ka-1990. memo isixwayiso sokuthi ukudala “umfelandawonye ophikisana neSoviet” wamazwe e-NATO ngasemngceleni we-USSR “kuzobonwa kabi kakhulu amaSoviet.”

UStoltenberg ubengase acabange ngemiphumela yazo zonke izithembiso eziphulwe yizikhulu zaseNtshonalanga ukuthi i-NATO ngeke yandise empumalanga. Isiqinisekiso esidumile sikaNobhala Wezwe uJames Baker kuMongameli waseSoviet uGorbachev sasingesinye nje sesibonelo. I-US, Soviet, German, British and French declassified amadokhumenti okuthunyelwe yi-National Security Archive kuveza iziqinisekiso eziningi zabaholi baseNtshonalanga ku-Gorbachev nezinye izikhulu zaseSoviet phakathi nenqubo yokuhlanganiswa kwamaJalimane ngo-1990 nango-1991.

UNobhala Jikelele we-NATO wayengase akhumbule incwadi ka-1997 ngochwepheshe benqubomgomo yezangaphandle abavelele abangama-50, ukushaya Izinhlelo zikaMongameli uClinton zokwandisa i-NATO iphutha lenqubomgomo “lenani elingokomlando” elizophazamisa ukuzinza kwe-Europe. Kodwa uClinton wayesezibophezele kakade ukumema iPoland ekilabhini, kubikwa ukuthi ngenxa yokukhathazeka ukuthi ukusho “cha” ePoland kuzomlahlekisela ngamavoti abucayi asePoland-America eMidwest okhethweni lwango-1996.

UStoltenberg wayengasikhumbula isibikezelo esashiwo uGeorge Kennan, ubaba ohlakaniphile wenqubomgomo yokuqukatha yase-US phakathi neMpi Yomshoshaphansi, lapho i-NATO iqhubekela phambili futhi ihlanganisa iPoland, iCzech Republic neHungary ngo-1998. Ku-New York Times interview, uKennan wabiza ukwanda kwe-NATO ngokuthi “iphutha elibi” elaphawula ukuqala kweMpi Yomshoshaphansi entsha, futhi waxwayisa ngokuthi abaseRussia “kancane kancane bazosabela kabi.”

Ngemva kokuba amanye amazwe ayisikhombisa aseMpumalanga Yurophu ejoyine i-NATO ngo-2004, kuhlanganise nezifunda zaseBaltic zase-Estonia, Latvia kanye neLithuaniaich, empeleni ezaziyingxenye yezwe elaliyiSoviet Union, ubutha banda nakakhulu. UStoltenberg ubengavele acabangele amazwi kaMongameli uPutin ngokwakhe, owasho ezikhathini eziningi ukuthi ukukhulisa i-NATO kumele "intukuthelo enkulu." Ngo-2007, eNgqungqutheleni Yezokuphepha yaseMunich, uPutin Ebuzwa, "Kwenzekani ngeziqinisekiso ezenziwa ozakwethu baseNtshonalanga ngemuva kokuhlakazwa kweSivumelwano saseWarsaw?"

Kodwa kwakuyiNgqungquthela ye-NATO yango-2008, lapho i-NATO ingakunaki ukuphikiswa okunamandla kweRussia futhi ithembisa ukuthi i-Ukraine izojoyina i-NATO, okwacisha izinsimbi ngempela.

UWilliam Burns, owayeyinxusa laseMelika eMoscow ngaleso sikhathi, wathumela umbiko ophuthumayo memo kuNobhala Wezwe u-Condoleezza Rice. "Ukungena kwe-Ukrainian ku-NATO yiyona ndlela ekhanyayo kunazo zonke ze-elite zaseRussia (hhayi nje u-Putin)," wabhala. “Eminyakeni engaphezu kwemibili nengxenye yezingxoxo nabadlali abamqoka baseRussia, kusukela kwabahudula idolo ezindaweni ezimnyama zaseKremlin kuya kwabagxeki bakaPutin ababukhali kakhulu benkululeko, angikatholi muntu obheka i-Ukraine ku-NATO njengento ehlukile. inselelo ezithakazelweni zaseRussia. "

Esikhundleni sokuqonda ingozi yokuwela "imigqa ebomvu ekhanyayo kunazo zonke," uMongameli uGeorge W. Bush waphikelela futhi waqhubekisela phambili ukuphikiswa kwangaphakathi ngaphakathi kwe-NATO ukuze amemezele, ngo-2008, ukuthi i-Ukraine izonikezwa ngempela ubulungu, kodwa ngosuku olungacacisiwe. UStoltenberg ngabe wayilandelela le ngxabano ekhona manje emuva kuleyo Ngqungquthela ye-NATO-iNgqungquthela eyenzeka ngaphambi kokuketulwa umbuso kwe-Euromaidan ngo-2014 noma kuthathwe i-Crimea yiRussia noma ukwehluleka kwezivumelwano zaseMinsk ukuqeda impi yombango eDonbas.

Ngempela lena kwakuyimpi eyabikezelwa. Iminyaka engamashumi amathathu yezixwayiso nezibikezelo zabonakala zinembe kakhulu. Kodwa zonke azilalelwanga yisikhungo esakala impumelelo yaso kuphela ngokukhula kwaso okungapheli esikhundleni sokuvikeleka esasikuthembisile kodwa sehluleka kaningi ukuletha, ikakhulukazi ezisulungeni zodlame lwaso eSerbia, Afghanistan naseLibya.

Manje iRussia isiqhamuke impi enesihluku, engekho emthethweni esikhiphe izigidi zabantu base-Ukraine abangenacala ezindlini zabo, yabulala futhi yalimaza izinkulungwane zezakhamuzi futhi ithatha ukuphila kwamasosha ase-Ukraine angaphezu kwekhulu nsuku zonke. I-NATO izimisele ngokuqhubeka nokuthumela inqwaba yezikhali ezizobhebhethekisa impi, kuyilapho izigidi emhlabeni wonke zihlupheka ngenxa yokuwohloka komnotho okukhulayo kule ngxabano.

Asikwazi ukubuyela emuva futhi sihlehlise isinqumo saseRussia esiyinhlekelele sokuhlasela i-Ukraine noma amaphutha omlando we-NATO. Kodwa abaholi baseNtshonalanga bangenza izinqumo zamasu ahlakaniphile ukuya phambili. Lokho kufanele kubandakanye ukuzibophezela kokuvumela i-Ukraine ukuthi ibe yizwe elingathathi hlangothi, elingelona i-NATO, into uMongameli Zelenskyy avumelana nayo ngokomgomo ekuqaleni kwempi.

Futhi, esikhundleni sokuxhaphaza le nkinga ukuze inwebeke nakakhulu, i-NATO kufanele imise zonke izicelo zobulungu ezintsha noma ezisalindile kuze kube yilapho inkinga ekhona isixazululiwe. Yilokho inhlangano yezokuvikela yangempela engayenza, ngokuphambene kakhulu nokuziphatha okungosomathuba kwalo mfelandawonye wezempi onolaka.

Kodwa sizokwenza ezethu izibikezelo ngokusekelwe ekuziphatheni okwedlule kwe-NATO. Esikhundleni sokucela ukuvumelana kuzo zonke izinhlangothi ukuze kuqedwe ukuchitheka kwegazi, lo Mfelandawonye oyingozi uzothembisa ukuhlinzekwa okungapheli kwezikhali ukusiza i-Ukraine "iwine" impi engenakunqotshwa, futhi izoqhubeka ifuna futhi ibambe wonke amathuba ukuze izitholele yona ngezindleko. wempilo yomuntu kanye nokuvikeleka komhlaba wonke.

Ngenkathi umhlaba unquma ukuthi izoziphendulela kanjani iRussia ngezinto ezesabekayo ezenzayo e-Ukraine, amalungu e-NATO kufanele azihlole ngokwethembeka. Kufanele baqaphele ukuthi okuwukuphela kwesixazululo esihlala njalo sobutha obuvezwa yilo mfelandawonye okhethekile, ohlukanisayo ukuhlakaza i-NATO futhi esikhundleni sayo kufakwe uhlaka olubandakanya wonke umuntu oluhlinzeka ngokuphepha kuwo wonke amazwe aseYurophu nakubantu, ngaphandle kokusongela iRussia noma ukulandela ngokungaboni i-United States izifiso zayo ezingagculiseki ne-anachronistic, ze-hegemonic.

UMedea uBenjamin uhlanganisa CODEPINK for Peace, futhi umbhali wezincwadi eziningana, kuhlanganise Umbuso Wabangalungile: Ngokwe-US-Saudi Connection.

UNicolas JS Davies ungumcwaningi one-CODEPINK, kanye nombhali we Igazi Ngezandla Zethu: Ukuhlasela KweMelika nokubhujiswa kwe-Iraq.