US-NATO-EU Choose Threat of Nuclear War as First Option of China-Russia Policy
Peace - The only path to economic security for Canada
Prime Minister Trudeau at his first meeting with US President Biden aligned Canada with top NATO, EU and G7 planners to contain and disrupt the economic cooperation between the Russian Federation (RF) and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Russia is one of many countries that align with China as a more reliable guarantor of peaceful economic development than the USA or the EU.
Why is the Trudeau Government with the support of all of the
opposition parties so willing to side with the US NATO alliance at the expense
of the social and economic needs of Canadian wage earners? The NATO alliance
has nothing to offer other than cost sharing in arms expenditures, wars,
occupations and sanctions. On close
study maintaining the vast global military reach of the USA is the main
contributing factor in its decline as a global economic power. States most
heavily invested and reliant on the US military power and war production, such
as Canada, are declining with it.
To fund the NATO war business treasuries, member states are
compelled to transfer hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars into the coffers
of the largest US and EU corporate suppliers of advanced nuclear weapons
systems. Canada’s
“defence” budget for 2020-21 is an estimated $23.4 billion or 1.31% of GDP.
This is a 25% increase since the 2016 budget or $70B increase since 2016. The multi-billion JFS F35 (Joint Strike
Fighter) program with Canada’s participation stretching back to 1996, is on
going. Billion-dollar upgrades of naval assets
offensive capability both surface and undersea is well advanced.
The US military industrial complex absorbs the brightest and
best, appropriates the discoveries of science and technology from NATO allies and
in the process distorts the non-military sectors of the economy by inflationary
competition for raw materials, science and technology and wage labour.
Canada, via NATO and NORAD is being drawn deeper into the
maw of this expanding war business. The
sheer weight of US military expenditures is the primary cause of the brain
drain from Canada to the USA and compels tens of millions of North American
workers to sell their labour power to arms manufacturers.
Unifor, the largest private sector union in Canada, with
313,000 members and 11,000 employed in the aerospace industry, issued a report
that included appealing to the Federal Government to assure that Pratt and
Whitney JFS F35 contracts come to Canada to employ aerospace workers. The union confronts layoffs of highly skilled
workers as De Havilland suspends production of the Dash 8 civilian aircraft and
seeks to expand jobs in defence production.
The union report called upon the federal government to:
“Reinforce the commitment to the Industrial Technological Benefits Program through the Joint Strike Fighter Capability Project and expand the program to additional military purchases when a Canadian made option is not available.
“Recognize the capabilities of Canadian aerospace companies in filling orders for government, military and emergency response aircraft by including a preference for Canadian content and made in Canada solutions”.
China and Russia’s trade policies provide an alternative to
war expenditures as the principal driver of economic development. That is why many developing states opt for the
no-strings-attached trade and development opportunities with China.
China in the near future will surpass the US in overall economic
development. China attracted $163
billion direct investment in 2020 and the US $134 billion according
to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. World Bank and OECD figures for 2019 listed
US GDP at $21.4 trillion and China GDP at $14.3 trillion. China growth rates continue at 2-6%/yr. even
during the pandemic. Predictions are it
will overtake the USA in GDP in a decade. China’s growth threatens US dollar dominance
in international trade and investment. The
US dollar as the global reserve currency wanes as its economy falters, and more
countries are opting to hold a basket of top global currencies including China’s
yuan which the IMF
and World Bank list as among the top global reserve currencies.
The rise of China-Russia economic and political cooperation
has divided the strategic planners of NATO, the US and the EU as to what to do.
NATO seeks by all means to rally public
support around a war consensus. The
speech of Jens Stoltenberg NATO general secretary at the February Munich
Security Conference defined China and Russia as alliance “adversaries” and emphasized
the obligation of member states to uphold Article Five of
the NATO Charter. Article Five
obliges all NATO states to join in joint military action if one member state is
attacked.
The NATO general secretary made this astounding claim:
“For over 70 years, NATO has secured peace in the Euro-Atlantic area.”
One need only read the scrubbed version
of US NATO wars of intervention to expose how utterly false the NATO
secretary’s claims are. The violation of
the UN Charter, sovereignty of nations, appropriation of wealth and resources, civilian
lives lost, massive civil infrastructure destruction, civil war, banditry, misery,
famine and disease that followed each NATO incursion is nowhere to be found. Here is NATO’s
list and self-serving descriptions of its
aggressions.
Membership in NATO comes with consequences for the people of
Canada. Canada’s membership in NATO
effectively contracts out the decision of war and peace from the elected
Parliament of Canada to NATO headquarters in Brussels. Abject all-party support in the House of
Commons for subordinating
Canadian foreign policy to the US-NATO alliance, commits Canada to
participate in future US-NATO wars and in the event of an all-out nuclear war
its assured extinction.
Out of a list of 20 missions only one,
the US-NATO war on Serbia was European. Canadian
government participation assigned ground forces and the Canadian Airforce,
which dropped 20% of NATO ordinance which included depleted uranium bombs, on
civilian targets in Belgrade and Kosovo.
Most NATO engagements are in the Middle
East, Asia and Africa. Canada’s
longest NATO war, Afghanistan, from 2001 to 2014
resulted in 132 dead, innumerable wounded and suffering PTSD, burdening the
health care system. The ISAF operation left hundreds of thousands of Afghan
civilians dead and wounded and a country in ruins with none of the internal
problems resolved to this day.
NATO trades on the specious argument that there are ideologies
and existential threats worse than global annihilation. Such a view of humanity is the perverse domain
of anti-communist fanaticism and the insane. It is not ground to be shared by any
Government claiming to be for peace.
Everyday the reckless far right is given mass media
platforms to promote war on Iran, Russia, China, North Korea and Syria. Such neurotic voices applaud sanctions against
Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua and promote a new cold war with Russian
and China.
The US-NATO attempt to militarily coerce Russia and China,
both nuclear powers, cannot be separated from the US-NATO doctrine of the first
strike use of nuclear weapons. The
doctrine requires a never-ending futile effort of US military planners to
achieve US nuclear weapons superiority. The
attempt to achieve nuclear weapons superiority goes together with the lunacy theory
of survivability in the event of a major nuclear war.
The Bulletin of the American Atomic Scientists on February 6,
2021 issued another scathing denunciation of the futility of the production of
new versions of nuclear weapons.
The Bulletin
writes that the US government authorized the development of a rocket the
length of a bowling alley to carry a nuclear weapons 6000 miles (9656 km) with
a warhead 20 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and that
could kill hundreds of thousands at one shot. The US Air Force is planning to order 600.
The US-NATO doctrine of first strike use of nuclear weapons
removes any duality in warfare. Today
the production of conventional military weaponry in the age of cybertechnology
is designed to be supportive of the primary offensive capability of nuclear
weapons systems. All US-NATO air, outer
space, ground, surface and undersea systems are designed to be
inter-interoperable with nuclear weapons warfare. There is no separation between conventional
and nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons
systems have evolved from ultimate use to operational use. Future major conflict is assured to be
nuclear.
Ballistic
Missile Defense (BMD) is a component part of the first strike US-NATO
nuclear doctrine. BMD was unleashed when the USA withdrew from the
Anti-ballistic missile treaty (ABM) in 2002 which effectively re-kindled the
nuclear arms race.
The predictable Russia and China response to US-NATO nuclear
strategies is spun by the media circus as evidence of being “adversarial”.
It is a fatal mistake for US-NATO
compliant governments such as Canada, to participate in or allow ground
based and outer space nuclear weapons delivery systems on its sovereign
territory. Such reckless pandering to US-NATO
military plans assure the citizens of such countries to certain annihilation in
the event of a major nuclear war.
US-NATO nuclear strategy imperils the survival of every
European and Asian country within range of its nuclear forward positioned
nuclear weapons systems. A sober
assessment of Russian nuclear
defense doctrine should be obligatory reading.
The US NATO war planners by all means seek to convince the
working class that a world without capitalism is not an option.
The labouring masses of Europe, North America, South America and Asia and Australia confront a stark choice, to align with the imperialist forces of war or align with all of the forces of peace and nuclear disarmament. That is the only real option.
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