The Art of War
NATO in Arms to «fight coronavirus»
Manlio Dinucci
The 30 NATO foreign
ministers (Luigi Di Maio for Italy), met on April 2 by videoconference, (1) and instructed US general Tod
Wolters, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to "coordinate the
necessary military support to fight the coronavirus crisis".
He is the same general who declared in the United
States Senate on February 25 “nuclear
forces are supporting every US military operation in Europe”
and “I am a fan of a
flexible first-use policy” of nuclear weapons, that
is nuclear attack by surprise (2) (“Dr. Strangelove takes care of our health”, Il
manifesto, March 24). (3)
General Wolters is the supreme commander of NATO as
head of the United States European Command. He is therefore part of the
Pentagon's chain of command, which has absolute priority. Its
strict rules are confirmed by a recent episode: the aircraft carrier Roosevelt
commander, Brett Crozier, was removed from command because he violated military
secrecy by urging aid sending, faced with the spread of the coronavirus on
board. (4)
To "fight coronavirus crisis",
General Wolters has “fast-track
paths through Europe’s airspace for military flights”, while civilian flights have almost disappeared. Fast-track
paths are also
used by the US strategic bombers
B2-Spirit for nuclear attack: on March 20, they took off from Fairford in
England, together with Norwegian F-16 fighters, they flew to the Arctic towards
Russian territory.(5) In
this way - General Basham, deputy commander of the US Air Force in Europe -
explains "we can promptly and effectively respond to threats in the
region, demonstrating our determination to bring our fighting power everywhere
in the world". (6)
While NATO is committed to
"fighting coronavirus" in Europe, two of the major European
Allies, France and Great Britain, sent their warships to the Caribbean. The
amphibious assault ship Dixmund sailed on April 3 from Toulon to French Guiana for what President
Macron calls "an unprecedented military operation" called “Resilience”, in the framework
of the "war to coronavirus".
(7) Dixmund
can perform the secondary function of hospital ship with 69 beds and 7 for
intensive care. The primary role of this large ship, 200 m long and with a
flight deck of 5000 m2, is that of amphibious assault: approaching the enemy
coast, it attacks with dozens of helicopters and landing crafts transporting
troops and armored vehicles. Similar
characteristics, albeit on a smaller scale, has the British ship RFA Argus, which sailed on April 2 to British Guyana. (8)
The two European ships will take position in the same
Caribbean waters near Venezuela, where the war fleet is arriving - with the
most modern coastal combat ships (also built by Italian Leonardo Company for US
Navy) and thousands of marines - sent by
President Trump officially to stop drug trafficking. (9)
He accuses Venezuelan President Maduro of "taking
advantage of the coronavirus crisis to increase the drug trafficking, he
finances his narco-state with". The purpose of the operation,
supported by NATO, is to strengthen the embargo tightening to economically
strangle Venezuela (a country with the largest oil reserves in the world),
whose situation is aggravated by the coronavirus that has started to spread.
The aim is to depose
regularly elected President Maduro (on whose head the US has placed a $ 15 million bounty) (10) and to establish a government that will bring the
country into the sphere of US domination. It cannot be excluded that an
incident could be caused as a pretext for the invasion of Venezuela.
The coronavirus crisis
creates favorable international conditions for an operation of this type,
perhaps presented as “humanitarian”.
(the manifesto, 7 April 2020)
(9) https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/us-to-deploy-navy-near-venezuela-to-stop-drug-trade
(10)
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DECLARATION OF FLORENCE
FOR AN INTERNATIONAL FRONT NATO EXIT
DANSK DEUTSCH ENGLISH ESPAÑOL FRANÇAIS ITALIANO NEDERLANDS
PORTUGUÊS ROMÎNA SLOVENSKÝ SVENSKA TÜRKÇE РУССКИЙ
DANSK DEUTSCH ENGLISH ESPAÑOL FRANÇAIS ITALIANO NEDERLANDS
PORTUGUÊS ROMÎNA SLOVENSKÝ SVENSKA TÜRKÇE РУССКИЙ
Manlio Dinucci
Geographer and geopolitical scientist. His latest books are Laboratorio di geografia, Zanichelli 2014 ; Diario di viaggio, Zanichelli 2017 ; L’arte della guerra / Annali della strategia Usa/Nato 1990-2016, Zambon 2016, Guerra Nucleare. Il Giorno Prima 2017; Diario di guerra Asterios Editores 2018, Premio internazionale per l'analisi geostrategica assegnato il 7 giugno 2019 dal Club dei giornalisti del Messico, A.C.
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