Canada was adamant about the need to construct such...

Canada was adamant about the need to construct such an alternate, in part because it sought to cement the bond between its two key allies, Britain and the United States, which had different views on his best to manage the rest of the world. (Classic colonialism vs neoimperialism)

Perhaps the most interesting note in the construction of the NATO alliance is that its chief proponent was Canada.'* In the uncertainty of the early Cold War period, Canada needed to establish the architecture through which it could guarantee its own position in the capitalist world, and key to that position was a successful alliance between Britain and the Y Tnmitad Ctatan Canadiam aficiala csanacaninad that hilatasal salatinnns srith

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Yogthos

Canadian diplomats secretly acknowledged that the entire premise of NATO (the threat of imminent soviet invasion) was false and that it was the west that was disturbing the peace.

On the surface, NATO was framed as a defensive agreement to discour- age Soviet aggression, but it was well understood by Canadian diplomats that Stalin had no interest in a war with the West. Hume Wrong at External Affairs wrote in 1946 that the “Soviet threat” was exaggerated, and Dana Wilgress reported from Moscow that it was the West that needed to be more prudent with respect to preserving peace.'” Both Wrong and Wilgress were anti-communists, but pragmatically they each recognized that the Soviet Union was unlikely to launch a surprise attack against Western Europe or North America, which was the chief concern NATO was ostensibly designed to allay.

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Yogthos

Of course, that’s because NATO wasn’t about preserving peace at all, it was about destroying the left (massively popular in the late 1940s around the world) and the anti-colonial movements that sought to overthrow the capitalist order that had brought so much suffering.

Rather, at its heart, the creation of NATO was about consolidating the alliance that would work to destroy the threat that had risen up to “civiliza- tion”: the anti-colonial and anti-capitalist movements that were emerging throughout the world in the postwar period. The colonial imagination that

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Yogthos

So, NATO was always and remains a vehicle for the power of the old colonial elite. The ruling classes of the west, who have justified every genocide, famine and massacre by claiming that ‘western civilization’ was the pinnacle of human possibility.

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