The Art of War
Who are the "useless wars" useful for?
Manlio Dinucci
The song that deservedly won the Sanremo Festival
is accompanied by a videoclip. It shows dramatic scenes of war and attacks. Despite
all this, life must go ahead "because everything goes beyond your useless
wars". Let's try replacing the videoclip with a docufilm of the latest
facts.
In Europe, NATO is deploying increasing forces
(including Italian ones) on the Eastern front against Russia, depicted as a
threatening aggressive power.
In the framework of a nuclear rearmament costing
$ 1.2 trillion, the United States is preparing to deploy the new nuclear bombs
B61- 12 in Italy, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, and probably also in
Poland and other Eastern countries. F-35 fighters will be equipped with the new
bomb.
The Italian Air Force takes part in the nuclear
war exercises: it sent one of its teams to the US Strategic Command last
September.
Russia is also accused by US of deploying
ground-based intermediate-range missiles on its own territory, in violation of
the 1987 INF Treaty. Consequently the
Pentagon is preparing to deploy missiles similar to Pershing 2 and Cruise in
Europe.
This creates a military confrontation similar to
the Cold War, which increases US influence in Europe and reunites the allies in
the common strategy aimed at maintaining supremacy in a changing world.
This entails an increasing military expenditure:
Italy will bring it from 70 to 100 million euros a day; Spain to 50 million
with a 73% increase by 2024; France will increase it by 40%, exceeding 135
million a day. To boost its nuclear arsenal, France will spend 37 billion euros
by 2025.
It’s a big
business for miitary industries: the Lockheed Martin equity returns grew by 84%
in three years.
Functional to the powerful interests that fuel
the US / NATO escalation are the Ukrainian neo-nazi groups. The are trained by
US instructors transfered from Vicenza. Ukraine has become the
"nursery" of the revival of Nazism in the heart of Europe (but in
Italy this is hardly spoken).
In Middle East, after the Russian intervention to
support Damascus, the US / NATO plan to demolish the Syrian state (as already
done with the Libyan one) failed. Now US and Nato, coordinated with Israel, try
to balkanize the country by tearing it up pieces of the national
territory.
In a hearing at the US Congress on 6 February,
the ambassador (retired) Robert Ford declared that for military and
"civilian" operations in Syria (where around 2,000 US troops are still
operating) the United States has spent 12 billion dollars from 2014 (mostly to
arm and support jihadist movements in order to undermine the state from
within).
In East Asia - underlines the Pentagon's
"National Defense Strategy 2018" - the United States faces "China, a
strategic competitor using predatory economics to intimidate its neighbors
while militarizing features in the South China Sea". The
Pentagon is examining a plan to send a heavily armed Marines rapid reaction
force to Asia-Pacific.
Losing economic ground with respect to China, the
United States deploy their military forces. Thus they create new tensions in
the region, not by chance when there are signs of détente between the two
Koreas.
The outlet may be another war, not
"useless" but very useful for the empire strategy.
Il manifesto, February 13, 2018
NO
WAR NO NATO
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