Jens Stoltenberg, the General Secretary of NATO, recently lectured the members of the European Parliament on the necessity of “paying the price” necessary to maintain Ukraine’s ability to operate and participate in its ongoing struggle with Russia. What he refused to acknowledge was the crucial part he personally played in starting this conflict.
Based on an article by Scott Ritter published on rt.com
The Norwegian plays a crucial part. It is comparable in many ways to the role of a fire commissioner, whose responsibility it is to unite numerous neighborhood fire departments into a large mutual aid arrangement whereby, in the event of a fire in one district, the resources of the neighboring districts are automatically dispatched to the scene. That sums up Article 5 of the NATO Charter.
Joining a fire district, like joining NATO, includes a process that calls for certain commitments from all parties involved, much like joining any membership-based bureaucracy. Like Article 5, the mutual help pact cannot be activated unless the affected party is a member.
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Imagine a situation where a fire commissioner was attempting to enlist a dubious fire district, and while the procedures were being followed to do so, a massive fire broke out. The non-member district is given equipment and resources (but not people) to battle the fire, and the fire commissioner urges his constituent districts to do the same. It’s a large fire. The fire commissioner requests extra funding.
Imagine furthermore that it turns out the fire commissioner was a part-time arsonist who helped start the fire.
That essentially sums up NATO’s current situation, where the US-led alliance is attempting to cope with the fallout from 14 years of fundamentally bad strategy that saw it offer Ukraine membership in the future despite knowing that Russia was fiercely opposed to such a move. When a legitimately elected president of Ukraine was replaced in February 2014 by a group of lawmakers chosen by Washington, NATO nations assisted in the coup.
Only extremist right-wing nationalists from Ukraine with ties to Nazi Germany and, following World War Two, secret CIA support that lasted from 1945 to the present were involved in the attempted coup. The engagement of these neo-Nazi groups is comparable to a fire commissioner sending out a group of fellow arsonists to purportedly help a candidate join the fire district, only to have them covertly plot to burn down entire communities inside the candidate district’s boundaries.
Jens Stoltenberg managed a system for eight years that purported to pursue peace in Ukraine following the coup through the Minsk Accords while secretly working with Ukraine, France, and Germany to obstruct the agreement’s completion.
Stoltenberg contributed to starting the fire that destroyed Ukraine. And as it turns out, the NATO secretary general reprimanded the legislators for “stop moaning and step up and give help to Ukraine” during a meeting with members of the European Parliament.
The world’s top arsonist was advising European insurance underwriters to take the hit for their job and buckle down.
His hypocrisy made me ill. He said, “The price we pay as the European Union, as NATO, is the price we can quantify in dollars, in money. Every day, Ukrainians lose life, which is the price they pay. Simply put, we need to quit whining and start assisting instead of complaining.
The reality that Stoltenberg and NATO were to blame for the fire that has engulfed Ukraine went unmentioned. Only Russia’s decision to start its own special military operation prevented the NATO/Ukrainian plan from materializing as Kiev prepared an onslaught against the Donbass.
The arsonist, though, won’t acknowledge that he set the fire. Instead, Stoltenberg had the nerve to claim that the fire he sparked represented a threat to all of NATO in addition to shifting blame for the Ukraine war onto Russia. Stoltenberg told the European legislators, “You have to recognize that if Ukraine loses this, it’s a threat for us. It is in our interest to support Ukraine.”
Stoltenberg erected his banner atop a hill of hypocrisy, ignoring the fact that he was largely to blame for the catastrophe that befell Ukraine when Russia began its military operation, and he proclaimed: “If you don’t care about the moral aspect of this, supporting the people of Ukraine, you should care about your own security interests. Pay for the support, the humanitarian help, and the effects of the economic sanctions now or later will cost you much more in the future.
“Pay for my faults, your mistakes, and our mistakes,” Stoltenberg actually said.
But an arsonist’s moral character does not include making amends for a mistake.
