"The War Directorate"

Article by Luis Carapinha, member of the International Department

The Davos World Economic Forum columns say it took place, this year, under a heavy atmosphere, far from the customary brilliance, which brightens up the " cream of the crop " of the capitalist world, which meets there every year. Facing the certainty of the serious critical financial crisis in expansion, numerous questions are added, on the magnitude of the announced tempest. The perspective of an excessive violent landing of the north-american economy, is a motive of apprehension for the epigones of the system, moreover when considered within the plan of the worsening of the systemic crisis of capitalism and the inevitable repercussions in the stability and perpetuation of the present hegemonic world order.

Therefore, the recent publication of a report, belonging to a group of NATO ancient high rank military staff is not a coincidence, which claim for a set of draconian measures, underlining the delirious admission of the pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons.

The text – with the suggestive title " A great strategy for an uncertain world "-, signed by general John Saalikashvili, ex- commandant-in-chief of the General High – Command of the USA and the previous Supreme Commandant of NATO in Europe, together with elderly military responsible from Germany, Great-Britain, France and The Netherlands, preconizes "a transatlantic globalized strategy" and the setting of a "permanent directorate, at the highest political level", together with the USA, NATO and the EU ( in El País, 15.01.08 ), capable of asserting the " symbiotic relationship " between the USA and the EU, and coordinate "answers in common" in order to exorcize the crisis which endanger "interests in common".

From the large range of challenges and menaces inserted in the document – which certainly did not appear without the guarantee of the highest spheres, and therefore, will be object of discussion at the NATO Summit, in Bucharest, in April – includes the rising of Asia and "China as a matter of risk ", the " Iran nuclear horizon", international terrorism and asymmetric war threat, not forgetting the energetic security problems and the climate changes. In the list of defended measures, one can refer to the abandoning of the consensus criteria in the holding of decisions, the imposition of a harder discipline on what concerns the NATO "partners" and the use of force regardless the authorization of the Security Council of the United Nations, always when immediate action is considered necessary… in order to protect an extensive number of human lives.

Where have we already heard all this?

More or less in the same occasion when the so-called NATO " radical manifest "was issued, the restored " orange " majority in Ukraine (Presidency, Government and Parliament) delivered a joint document in defence of the acceleration/ hasting of the procedures of the adherence of the country to the Atlantic Alliance.

Following the adherence to NATO plebiscite victory in Georgia – in parallel with the presidential elections, largely contested by the opposition to Saakasvili regime, which OSCE hastily considered " essentially free "- all indicates that the Bucharest Summit, following Prague and Riga, will undergo new steps in the path of the " euro-atlantic " expansionism, towards the " vital space " in the East. And the European map "reformulation", in progress, is also complemented with the advance of the USA anti-missile defence project and the unilateral " independence " plot in Kosovo, in which the EU plays the role of the illegality pivot, ignoring the increased risks for peace and security in the Old Continent (and in the global plan) that such strategic options represent.

To articulate the struggle for peace and sovereignty against imperialism and the capitalist exploitation, merging both in a vast mass movement, constitutes a major demand of our times. In order to banish the "war directorate " threats and the neofascist order, outlined in the horizon.

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