NATO will hold a three-day conference in Washington. It will reaffirm its support for policies that haven’t worked. And NZ’s PM Chris Luxon is going to it.
According to the official press release, “The PM will head to Washington DC on 9 July, where he plans to attend the NATO Summit – a meeting of the 32 nations that make up the alliance as well as other partners. Luxon plans to meet with leaders from across the NATO countries, including counterparts from Australia, Japan, and Korea. While in DC, Luxon will also meet with members of the US administration and Congress.
“The United States is the world’s largest economy and our second biggest trading partner. It plays a leading role in world affairs,” he said.
The last part yes, but what is the first part about? Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr wants NATO disbanded and Trump has had enough of the U.S. footing most of the bill for it. Is the idea that NZ will contribute more money for wasting on the DNC’s destructive wars, the one in Ukraine particularly?
From Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies at antiwar.com:
After NATO’s catastrophic, illegal invasions of Yugoslavia, Libya and Afghanistan, on July 9th NATO plans to invade Washington DC. The good news is that it only plans to occupy Washington for three days. The British will not burn down the U.S. Capitol as they did in 1814, and the Germans are still meekly pretending that they don’t know who blew up their Nord Stream gas pipelines. So expect smiling photo-ops and an overblown orgy of mutual congratulation.
The details of NATO’s agenda for the Washington summit were revealed at a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Prague at the end of May. NATO will drag its members into the U.S. Cold War with China by accusing it of supplying dual-use weapons technology to Russia, and it will unveil new NATO initiatives to spend our tax dollars on a mysterious “drone wall” in the Baltics and an expensive-sounding “integrated air defense system” across Europe.
But the main feature of the summit will be a superficial show of unity to try to convince the public that NATO and Ukraine can defeat Russia and that negotiating with Russia would be tantamount to surrender.
On the face of it, that should be a hard sell. The one thing that most Americans agree on about the war in Ukraine is that they support a negotiated peace. When asked in a November 2023 Economist/YouGov poll “Would you support or oppose Ukraine and Russia agreeing to a ceasefire now?,” 68% said “support,” and only 8% said “oppose,” while 24% said they were not sure.
No mention of BRICS alliance which are abandoning greenback and petrodollar / SWIFT money exchange
Sanctions are not working
USA is toast
Will countries abandon NATO?
Fearmongering of China will ramp up