The 5th article in TFF’s series “The New Cold War”
NATO’s Summit begins today in Warsaw and there is a need for the alliance to mitigate its internal divisions and the relative weakening of the West by uniting outward on one thing: that lone Russia is a huge threat to its 28 members plus friends like Finland and Sweden.
Russia on its side of course sees NATO as its huge threat.
If it wasn’t so serious, it comes close to a farce. Her is why:
Good-hearted people – and those who have never studied these things – believe that, first, some experts make a threat analysis and then politicians decide on ways to build an adequate defence and security against it within the means.
That’s also what the psychological-media warfare (PSYOP) will have you believe: That external factors rule the game – that we only do what we must because “they” are a threat to us.
Regrettably, this theory has been known for about 50 years to be plain wrong.
It survives because the entire field is imbued with anti-intellectualism and run mainly by propaganda.
Images and propaganda of threats are after-constructions serving to legitimate the ongoing internal dynamics of the Military-Industrial-Media-
All MIMACs must be financed and explained by making citizens fear an enemy while the enemy is – right… Ourselves.
Thus, most of what happens these days in Warsaw is utter intellectual nonsense.
It’s potentially very dangerous for every and each European, particularly East Europeans whom Russia will have to target, according to normal Realpolitik theory, the closer NATO operates to its border.
So when it comes to security politics: Just turn everything on its head and it all begins to make sense… which is what I try to tell about 600 million in 4 min here.
And it is stated brilliantly here by Stephen Kinzer in the Boston Globe today.
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