NATO chief Rutte confirms alliance is for US to project power

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte appears to suggest in an interview that the alliance is a “platform for the United States to project power on the World stage”.

His revealing comments come as increasing divisions are seen across NATO member states. This divide comes in their leaders’ position on the US-Israel war of aggression on Iran. Whilst France, UK, Germany and Italy have come to Trump’s heel like good little lapdogs, Spain has strongly condemned the illegal war and refused any military involvement in Western attacks on the Middle East.

Rutte’s comments have sparked widespread disgust as finally it is clear that the ‘defence alliance’ is merely a front for US imperial interests.

‘Making use of key assets here in Europe’ — NATO

For the past 2.5 years, citizens across NATO states have become increasingly concerned. In fact, they have often expressed anger about their governments’ response to the US-backed genocide in Gaza carried out by Israel. Now, Rutte’s comments appear to confirm what we have long suspected. The transatlantic alliance is merely a vassal group for furthering US power and imperialism across the World.

Rutte’s controversial comments in full:

NATO is there to protect us collectively against any adversary, be it Russia or whoever, or terrorism.

But also, it is a platform for the United States to project power on the world stage. Because this whole operation now, this whole campaign in Iran, needs these basic requests to be positively engaged with by NATO allies, as they are doing, making use of key assets here in Europe.

So, the fact that we stick together, the United States and Europe and Canada, is crucial also for the success of this American-Israeli campaign.

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However, Spain is currently standing firmly in opposition to the ‘American-Israeli campaign’. This clearly indicates that the illegal war does not have the collective support that Rutte so desperately wants to assert above. This all comes whilst Israel is rapidly losing support amongst US citizens as consent plummets.

Furthermore, if Rutte’s comments can be relied upon, then the reverse must also be true. Therefore, if Europe and Canada staunchly abide by international law, refraining from goose-stepping to the war-hungry US and Israeli presidents, then the illegal campaign would surely fail.

Calls have since been made for Ireland to stop in its tracks comes as it appears to bow down to the NATO ‘war machine’. Ireland has suffered at the hands of colonial Britain so it should know better than to further the imperial ambitions of the US and Israel:

‘Grubby footnote in an ugly march toward European rearmament’

Our own Robert Freeman discussed Ireland’s recent steps closer to NATO, writing recently:

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has acknowledged he will be spending almost €1 million on a war room. He didn’t describe it that way, of course, instead referring to:

“…secure meeting facilities to allow continued engagement with international partners.”

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He did, however, accept that the room, designed to be surveillance proof, would be key for meetings of the nations backing Ukraine in the war against Russia. Martin revealed a further clue to the purpose of the project by saying it is “NATO proof”. In other words, up to the standards required by the NATO war machine.

Most of the Irish population would like the country to be NATO proof, but in entirely the opposite meaning of the way in which Martin used the term. I.e. – proofed from co-option by the belligerent and expansionist alliance.

Freeman concluded:

It amounts to one more grubby footnote in an ugly march toward European rearmament that will ultimately make the world less, not more, secure. It fills the coffers of the military-industrial complex, whose profits lie in death and destruction. With greater wealth, their ability to push governments in that direction increases.

The Irish population strongly backs neutrality, partial though it may always have been. That voice must now be heard louder than ever to pull Ireland back from the clutches of the NATO death cult.

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It might not even be that hard to achieve, as far-right supporters of Trump’s barbarism in the Middle East are asking the US to withdraw its forces. Please, do keep threatening us with such a good time:

US must be kicked out

This revelation from Rutte is hardly a surprise. Many have raised repeated concerns about the nefarious intentions at work in NATO. We also wrote last month about NATO’s ‘highest profile corruption scandal’ exposed by the Arms Trade Corruption Tracker (ATCT). The ATCT published a damning report in which corruption has been exposed between staff at NATO and Elbit Systems. Elbit Systems is an Israeli arms company that has sites across the UK and across the West.

Thankfully, some NATO staff members have resisted the alliance’s direction of travel and growing corruption. Yet those who show such courage soon face the consequences. We wrote last month:

Suggesting internal whistleblowers are facing typical abuse and negative consequences as a result of raising concerns about internal corruption, they [ATCT] added:

“The fallout did not stop with the suspects. Inside the alliance, senior officials began raising alarms of their own. The NSPA’s Director of Human Resources and its Chief Audit Executive and Head of Investigations flagged internal corruption and wrongdoing within NATO’s structures. Their interventions came at a cost: both saw their positions either suspended or left unrenewed.”

We must resist this march to war. It is clearly not in the interests of ordinary people trying to live safe and secure lives. After all, it is only in the interests of those with power who will profit. As a result, member states must hold firm and reject Mark Rutte’s invitation to allow the US to use “key assets” across the West. Going further, we should revisit all agreements for US military to be on British soil reducing their ability to ‘project power’ beyond its borders. 

If we do not, we risk turning an illegal war into our own — while cementing our status as a threat to world peace and stability.

Featured image via the Canary