Frequently provoking regional conflicts, NATO is involved in almost all wars and conflicts

　　"NATO is involved in almost all wars and conflicts"(In-depth look)

　　——NATO's adherence to the Cold War mentality goes against the trend of the times①

　　Our reporter Ren Yan

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　　NATO is a product of the Cold War, but NATO has not withdrawn from the stage of history with the end of the Cold War.

For decades, the US-led NATO has adhered to the Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice, engaged in group confrontation, frequently provoked regional contradictions, disputes and conflicts, and seriously undermined world and regional peace and stability.

　　"Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries, we all have vivid memories of what happened to these countries, have they been rebuilt? The so-called 'democracy' under the wings of NATO warplanes leaves only pain and suffering to the people of those countries, making them the Victims of dilapidation and economic chaos, with no future in sight." On May 9 this year, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko issued such a question at a ceremony to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the victory of the Great Patriotic War.

　　In 1949, in the name of "collective defense", the United States wooed some European countries to establish the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a tool of hegemony.

After the end of the Cold War, NATO not only did not die, on the contrary, under the guise of safeguarding "democracy, freedom and human rights", NATO spread the black hands of armed provocation and military intervention to many places around the world, causing huge casualties and humanitarian disasters.

　　USA Today commented -

　　"NATO's attack on Yugoslavia is a blatant and shameful act of aggression"

　　On March 24, 1999, NATO, citing the "human rights crisis" in Kosovo, bypassed the UN Security Council and carried out 78 days of continuous bombing on the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

According to incomplete statistics from the Serbian government, NATO dispatched 1,150 fighter aircraft, carried out more than 2,300 air strikes, and dropped nearly 420,000 bombs totaling 22,000 tons, including depleted uranium bombs and cluster bombs prohibited by international conventions.

Large-scale air strikes killed more than 2,500 innocent civilians, injured more than 12,500 people, displaced more than 1 million people, and lost more than 2 million people.

　　On May 7, 1999, the US-led NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia, killing three Chinese journalists, injuring more than 20 Chinese diplomats, and severely damaging the premises.

This barbaric act by NATO has aroused strong indignation and condemnation of the Chinese people.

　　NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia was not only aimed at military and strategic targets as it claimed. Not only factories, railways, bridges, oil depots, power and communication facilities, but also schools, hospitals, nursing centers, places of worship and historical landmarks were bombed. .

The bombs dropped by NATO in Serbia have not yet been cleared. The depleted uranium bombs dropped have caused a surge in the incidence of cancer and leukemia in the region, causing permanent damage to people's health and the ecological environment.

　　"USA Today" commented: "NATO's attack on the Yugoslavia is a blatant and shameful act of aggression. The US military is attacking an ally that has not attacked the United States, has not attacked the United States, and has not even attacked neighboring countries. Country. That's what defines an aggressor."

　　"This is the first time that NATO has launched a war against a sovereign country without the authorization of the United Nations since its establishment. It officially marks that NATO has changed from defensive to offensive, implemented a new interventionist strategy, and pursued a clear expansionist policy." Zeng Rennan In an interview with this reporter, Union Foreign Minister Zivadin Yovanovic said that NATO's use of force against the Yugoslavia seriously violated the UN Charter and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and posed a serious challenge to the basic principles of international law.

　　Every year, events are held across Serbia to commemorate the victims of the NATO bombing.

"It's really painful to look back on that history. I was a kid at the time, and the war had a huge impact on my life. My hometown was bombed, leaving many ruins, and NATO aggression crippled our country." Ana of Serbia's capital Belgrade said so at this year's commemoration.

　　Former Yugoslav Foreign Minister——

　　"Upholding human rights is just an excuse for NATO's war against sovereign states"

　　On April 24, 1999, the NATO Washington Summit adopted a new "Alliance Strategic Concept", which proposed that not only military measures, but also political, economic, social and environmental fields should be used to solve security problems in the 21st century. "Broad Means".

This marks the beginning of NATO's transformation from a defensive military alliance to an "intervention" and "expansion" political-military bloc.

　　In 2001, NATO led by the United States launched a military operation against Afghanistan in the name of "anti-terrorism"; in 2003, the United States fabricated the lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and joined forces with the United Kingdom and other NATO allies to launch the Iraq War; in 2011, the United States, Britain, France, etc. NATO countries attacked Libya on the grounds of "protecting civilians"... "The essence of NATO's new strategy is military intervention. The protection of human rights is just an excuse for NATO to fight against sovereign countries." China, Syria and other sovereign countries have launched military strikes one after another, sometimes for "human rights", sometimes for a tube of "washing powder", and sometimes for no reason at all.

　　The "Real Cost of War in the United States after 9/11", released in September 2021 by the "Cost of War" project of Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, outlines that after the "9.11" incident, in Iraq, In Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan and other countries, the wars launched by the United States resulted in a total of 897,000 to 929,000 deaths, of which civilians accounted for more than 40%.

　　Alan Cooperman, an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, once wrote that in 2011, when NATO airstrikes on Libya, the civil war in Libya was almost over, resulting in about 1,000 deaths; killed in the civil war, and NATO intervention increased the violent death toll tenfold.

Today, Libya is still in turmoil, with people displaced.

　　Zulemai Shahbaz, deputy editor-in-chief of Afghanistan's "Friendship", said: "In the past 20 years, NATO has killed and injured innocent people and destroyed people's homes in many villages and towns in Afghanistan under the pretext of fighting the Taliban." According to Afghanistan According to the assessment of scholars at Kabul University, the average daily economic loss of the Afghan war is about 60 million US dollars and about 250 casualties.

In August 2021, the US military hastily withdrawn from Afghanistan.

Local media commented that when the US military left, "waving his sleeves as if nothing happened", but for Afghanistan and the Afghan people, they lost a full 20 years.

　　Member of the European Parliament -

　　'The presence of NATO can only create more problems'

　　An analysis article published by Professor Glenn Deason of Norway's Southeast University believes that the world is changing to a multi-polar era, but NATO defines itself as an "eternal force".

In the context of NATO hegemony, invasion became "humanitarian intervention", coup became "democratic revolution", subversion became "promoting democracy", gunboat diplomacy became "freedom of navigation", and torture became "enhanced interrogation techniques”, the expansion of military blocs into “European integration”, domination into “negotiations from a position of strength”, and Russia’s demand for NATO assurances not to engage in expansionism into “violations of democracy and sovereignty”.

　　"Looking back at history, we will know that NATO has been involved in almost all wars and conflicts. NATO is a war organization, this is a fact." Shukran Dogan, head of Ankara Province of the Turkish Labor Party, said that in order to seize interests and achieve its own goals, the United States, The wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and other countries have resulted in the displacement and even death of a large number of civilians, and the United States does not care about the suffering of these civilians.

　　Mick Wallace, a member of the European Parliament, said in a speech at the European Parliament: "What NATO has always done is to export wars, and NATO is a fighter with weapons and equipment." MEP Claire Daley pointed out: "NATO's Existence can only create more problems. You can see this clearly in places like Libya, where NATO is killing. NATO is not a force for peace at all, not only in the Ukraine crisis, not in all previous crises ."