Manlio Dinucci
NATO defense ministers (for Italy Lorenzo Guerini, Democratic Party, PD), gathered in videoconference on 17/18 June, have taken a series of "decisions to strengthen the Alliance's deterrence". But no one in Italy talks about it, nor in the media (social networks included) nor in the political world, where absolute multipartisan silence reigns over all this. Yet such decisions, basically dictated by Washington and signed for Italy by Minister Guerini, they draw the guidelines not only of our military policy, but also of the foreign one.
First of all - announces Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg - "NATO is preparing for a possible second wave of Covid-19", against which it has already mobilized over half a million soldiers in Europe. Stoltenberg does not clarify how NATO can predict a possible second pandemic of the virus with a new lockdown.
On one point, however, it is clear: this "does not mean that other challenges have disappeared". The greatest - underline the defense ministers - comes from the "destabilizing and dangerous behavior of Russia", in particular from his "irresponsible nuclear rhetoric, aimed at intimidating and threatening NATO Allies ".
They thus overturn reality, erasing the fact that it was NATO, over the Cold War, to extend close to Russia with its nuclear forces and bases, especially Americans. It was methodically implemented, directed by Washington, a strategy aimed at creating growing tensions with Russia in Europe.
Defense ministers met in the Nuclear Planning Group to decide on new military measures against Russia, chaired by the United States.
It is not known which nuclear decisions Minister Guerini signed on behalf of Italy. It is however clear that, participating in the Group and hosting US nuclear weapons (also usable by our aeronautics), Italy violates the Non-Proliferation Treaty and rejects the UN Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Stoltenberg just says: "Today we have decided further steps to keep the NATO nuclear deterrent in Europe safe and efficient". Among these steps there is certainly the next arrival, Also in Italy, of the new US nuclear bombs B61-12.
The other growing "challenge", of which the defense ministers spoke, it is that of China, which for the first time is "at the top of the NATO agenda". China is a trading partner of many allies, but at the same time "it invests heavily in new missile systems that can reach all NATO countries", explains Stoltenberg. NATO thus begins to present China as militarily threatening.
At the same time, it presents Chinese investments in the countries of the Alliance as dangerous. Based on this premise, the defense ministers updated the guidelines for "national resilience", aimed at preventing energy, transport and telecommunications, in particular the 5G, end up under "foreign ownership and control" (read "Chinese").
These are the decisions signed by Italy at the NATO meeting of defense ministers. They bind our country to a strategy of growing hostility, especially towards Russia and China, exposing ourselves to increasingly serious risks and making the ground on which the same economic agreements are based landslide.
It is a long-term strategy, as demonstrated by the launch of the "Born 2030" project, done by Secretary General Stoltenberg on June 8 to "strengthen the Alliance militarily and politically" including countries like Australia (already invited to the meeting of defense ministers), New Zeland, Japan and other Asians, in clear anti-Chinese function.
For the Great Global Born project 2030 a group of 10 advisers, including prof. Marta dassù, former foreign policy advisor in the Alema government before and during the NATO war on Yugoslavia, in which Italy participated in 1999, under command Use, with its bases and its bombers.
(the poster, 23 June 2020)