Washington's
dirty games as history repeated in a slightly different way
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The creation
of a Warsaw "anti-pact" initiated by NATO, gives some
interesting historical conclusions. Although no one can say that the
former Soviet Union or Russia today are geopolitical "angels",
in both cases, it seems that their role was mostly to defend
themselves against the US aggression.
Warsaw Pact,
being the military completion of the Council for Mutual Economic
Assistance (Comecon), was created in 1955 as an answer to the US
decision to include West Germany to NATO. Soviet Union had initially
proposed to join NATO, while subsequently, made a series of other
proposals for the creation of a pan-European defence coalition
without taking account the social system in each country.
However, all
the plans of the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vyacheslav
Molotov, repelled by the United States because they were promoting the
rearmament of West Germany and the beginning of the Cold War through
which they would secure American hegemony in Western Europe.
As in the
NATO case which was assumed to be a coalition between equal members
but in reality was completely controlled by Washington, the Warsaw
Pact was a "showcase" behind which Moscow was hiding its
dominance. Both coalitions interfered in the internal political life
of the members.
The basic
difference was that NATO made this possible through secret operations
(teams like the Gladio in Italy, or, the Red Fleece in Greece), while
Moscow was mobilized through military action too, with the most
characteristic example, the invasion in Czechoslovakia.
However, the
most terrifying similarity, was probably the fact that Washington did
not hesitate to cooperate with real nazis in order to promote its
plans against Moscow. Until 1954, after releasing all the
industrialists who supported Hitler's rise to power, the United
States permanently terminated the process of de-nazification of the
West Germany mechanisms. Moreover, allowed the presence of hundreds
of nazis officials in the secret services of the country (Gehlen).
Today, the US and the EU did not hesitate to cooperate even with
Svoboda, the Social-National party in Ukraine, in order to overthrow
the pro-Russian government of the country and bring NATO closer to
the Russian borders.
Almost sixty
years after the creation of the Warsaw Pact, the United States are
betting again on the military tension, trying to sabotage any attempt
of capitulation. A key role will be played again by Berlin, which
today is not under the American or the Soviet supremacy, but is
called to decide whether to go East or West.
A part
from the article NATO resets the Warsaw Pact by
Aris Chatzistefanou
Related:
End of an era for the West
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