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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
4 Apr 2023 at 19:33 | Open on mas.to
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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.
4 Apr 2023 at 19:33 | Open on mas.to
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