Ron Paul Says Forget Ukraine, DC Hawks Dragging NATO Into Taiwan War
- Ron Paul Says Forget Ukraine, DC Hawks Dragging NATO Into Taiwan War
by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
As NATO’s disastrous proxy war in Ukraine continues to sputter, many in DC seem to be losing interest in “Project Ukraine.” Instead of admitting the folly of interventionism, however, they are looking for bigger fish to fry. Like…war with China! Also today: Syria back in the Arab League – what does it mean?
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Below is more Texas former Congressman Ron Paul on NATO’s growing conflict posture with China…
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NATO’s post-Cold War history is that of an organization far past its “sell-by” date. Desperate for a mission after the end of the Warsaw Pact, NATO in the late 1990s decided that it would become the muscle behind the militarization of “human rights” under the Clinton Administration.
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Gone was the “threat of global communism” which was used to justify NATO’s 40-year run, so NATO re-imagined itself as a band of armed Atlanticist superheroes. Wherever there was an “injustice” (as defined by Washington’s neocons), NATO was ready with guns and bombs.
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The US military-industrial complex could not have been happier. All the Beltway think tanks they lavishly fund finally hit on a sure winner to keep the money pipeline flowing. It was always about money, not security.
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The test run for NATO as human rights superheroes was Yugoslavia in 1999. To everybody but NATO and its neocon handlers in DC and many European capitals, it was a horrific, unjustified disaster. Seventy-eight days of bombing a country that did not threaten NATO left many hundreds of civilians dead, the infrastructure destroyed, and a legacy of uranium-tipped ammunition to poison the landscape for generations to come.
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