The North Atlantic Treaty Organization represents the stage of capitalism where the imperialists, after making nuclear annihilation a possibility, have taken advantage of this horrific reality that they themselves engineered. The equivalent has happened with Covid-19, in which the IMF has used the pandemic as a pretext for
“…Taking advantage of the fears about European countries again going to war with one another, they formed NATO, an arrangement for unifying the imperialists in their efforts to expand exploitation of the peripheries.…”
Well no.
Later on in the article, you pinpoint NATO as a vehicle for US hegemony. So exactly - not’s not a ”unification” tool. It’s a tool for pretending there is a “coalition” rather than an US-driven military action - and thus avoiding legal context of sole aggression that would subsequently have US officials facing charges that normally land people at the ICJ at the Hague. Not coincidently, the US refuses to sign up to subject its military and political leaders to the jurisdiction of the ICJ.
“…Taking advantage of the fears about European countries again going to war with one another, they formed NATO, an arrangement for unifying the imperialists in their efforts to expand exploitation of the peripheries.…”
Well no.
Later on in the article, you pinpoint NATO as a vehicle for US hegemony. So exactly - not’s not a ”unification” tool. It’s a tool for pretending there is a “coalition” rather than an US-driven military action - and thus avoiding legal context of sole aggression that would subsequently have US officials facing charges that normally land people at the ICJ at the Hague. Not coincidently, the US refuses to sign up to subject its military and political leaders to the jurisdiction of the ICJ.