{"id":21138,"date":"2024-10-24T21:01:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T18:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=21138"},"modified":"2024-10-24T21:01:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T18:01:21","slug":"is-nato-militarily-capable-and-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=21138","title":{"rendered":"Is NATO Militarily Capable and Effective?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NATO’s biggest problem after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990-1991 was the lack of an external enemy. So how could it justify its existence? Thus an enemy had to be found, it was decided that this enemy would be Russia, as there was at that time no specific European or overseas country that could even theoretically threaten the Alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO turned out to be a very good enemy for Russia. Why? Because it is a paper tiger, an ineffective military machine of the West. Due to the existence of NATO no country in Europe (once a very belligerent continent) can field even a single combat ready ground division at any time as the three major powers France, Britain and Germany are unable to cooperate , nor are they ever going to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO armed forces (with the exception of Turkey which maintains combat-worthy and experienced personnel due to Libya, Syria and Kurdish rebels), in addition to the nuclear branch, include rapid reaction forces, which are supposed to be ready to jump out of their chairs at this moment and run to establish “democracy” in any region of the world. On paper, there are 300,000 troops and 500 aircraft on constant alert. The main defense forces are an additional 600-800 thousand “bold” European fighters, supported by about 1,000 fighters and bombers. In a word, NATO is strong, but all this on paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In reality, no one knows how NATO is really run. In 2003, it was decided to carry out a deep reform of the entire management mechanism, making it flexible and compact, as written in NATO’s statutory documents, that is, “responding to modern challenges and realities.” The idea was to drastically reduce the amount of bureaucracy and management structures after the Cold War. Crying: The reform since 2003 has not been completed. Initially, it was decided that somehow it was not a good thing that the Americans would be primarily responsible. So they created a parallel structure where the Europeans were in charge. So while there was one head, now there are two who decide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US structure is called Joint Forces Transformation Command (located in the US), the European structure is called Joint Command Operations (located in Belgium). These two structures divided NATO between them. The Americans directly command three military regions, the Europeans eight. Both administrations have their own headquarters, these are also separate structures with their own staff. In addition, there is the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force and the International Military Headquarters, each Headquarters represented by the chiefs of general staff of the participating countries. Each participating country has a permanent representative with its own staff at these headquarters. The International Military Headquarters reports directly to the NATO Military Commission, which is formally the supreme body, but in reality there is also the North Atlantic Council itself, also a separate body with its own structure and supreme headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not to mention organizations, councils and special committees. No one knows exactly how many there are, because they are constantly being abolished, merged and reformed. According to the latest Chinese intelligence reports, NATO has about 60 agencies and about 15 directorates and committees. There is, for example, a separate Consultation and Audit Agency, nobody understands what it does, but it writes some well-researched reports like “The State of Aid”. At the same time the Alliance has more than a thousand employees in five countries with an annual budget of around three hundred million euros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the military, NATO also has a civilian sector, which is also a separate structure with 15 separate directorates. No one knows how many bureaucrats work in this organization and what specific budget is spent on all this luxury. In pure theory, over 100 thousand bureaucrats work in all known structures of NATO, including workers in countless institutes for the study of everything. At least 100 thousand bureaucrats with good European and American salaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now let’s see what happens in the real world. Let’s remember the Rapid Reaction Force, the rapid deployment of 300,000 troops and 500 aircraft. In 2023, NATO decided to conduct very “frightening” exercises called “Air Defender-23”. It was designed in 2018 in response to the Russian annexation of Crimea. The idea was simple, to gather 250 warplanes and make 250 sorties every day for 10 days, something the Alliance had been preparing for for almost 5 years. In the end, less than 180 aircraft were assembled: the Americans provided 100 (actually less) and the NATO countries of Europe another 80, including the new NATO countries (Sweden and Finland), but also transports, AWACS and others. The best result of the exercises was 50 flights a day for the whole team, on average they flew 30 times a day and no flight was without air incidents. The famous Rafale was never used in the exercise, in fact this fighter never gave combat credentials. For every two hours of flight, for some reason, it required aerial refueling. However, NATO had not provided refueling aircraft with the necessary equipment for the Rafales, so they simply decided not to fly them. The aging B-52s never arrived from the US, apparently to avoid taking too many “risks”. In other words, of the 500 declared Rapid Reaction Force aircraft, NATO fielded 180 at best, of which less than a third actually attempted on any given escalation day. This is the result of NATO’s largest air exercise, which was five years in the making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above highlights the fact that NATO has long since ceased to engage in a world based on facts, allowing itself to develop into a theater of the absurd, where the actors delude themselves into believing the script they are filming, while the audience looks at them with disappointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the war in Ukraine, Russia has exposed NATO’s utter military incompetence, forcing the Alliance to admit that it is unable, at least with conventional weapons, to defend it. Moreover, the massive economic sanctions that NATO has unleashed in lieu of a military response have proven to be as impotent as NATO’s military might, despite what NATO and US political leadership may say to the contrary. Individual NATO members are beginning to wake up to the reality that their organization is nothing more than a powerless tool of American global hegemony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hungary has made its own gas deal with Russia, defying US directives. Croatia and Bulgaria have made it clear they will not deploy troops to support NATO in Ukraine. Turkey has said it sees the crisis in Ukraine as little more than a thinly veiled effort by NATO and the US to weaken Turkey by forcing it to confront Russia in the Black Sea. But perhaps the most revealing moments came when NATO’s two European superpowers, Germany and France, were forced to come face to face with the reality of their subservient role vis-\u00e0-vis the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When French President Emmanuel Macron visited Russia to try to negotiate a settlement to the Ukraine crisis, he was faced with the reality that Russia would not negotiate with France without the US first expressing its support for the Frenchman’s positions. chairman. Similarly, the German chancellor was forced to remain silent during his visit to the White House when US President Joe Biden said he would unilaterally shut down the NordStream pipelines, even though the US had played no role in their construction and management. . Scholz remained equally silent when the pipelines were blown up, with the apparent support of American and British agencies. Germany, Biden has said, is nothing more than a US colony.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The final nail in NATO’s coffin came when Russian President Putin met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the start of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. The two leaders issued a 5,000-plus word joint statement in which China unequivocally expressed its its opposition to NATO expansion in Ukraine. The two leaders announced that they would seek an “international multipolar order based on law”, as opposed to “unilateral rules that only serve US interests”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world has fundamentally changed. NATO literally has no meaning anymore. The forces it can deploy, namely a few thousand American paratroopers and a host of other forces from other NATO nations, not only cannot defeat the Russian adversary, but they do not provide the slightest deterrent value if Russia tends to shift its gaze away from Ukraine to Poland and the Baltic countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rifts that have been and are being revealed in NATO regarding Ukraine will grow over time. It may take years to dismantle NATO, but let’s not be fooled by what is happening: NATO is finished as an alliance as the West turns into a “self-denial” society that will cause its collapse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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