NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg addressed the US Congress on Wednesday,
and continued to push the familiar narrative of Russia posing a broad,
multi-faceted, but largely undefined “threat,” and that only the NATO
alliance would be able to stop them.
This is a popular excuse for Western officials trying to justify growing
military spending and aggressive posture, and particularly when
addressing the US Congress, claiming a threat by Russia is usually a
winning strategy.
Stoltenberg gave lip-service to the idea that NATO might have to deploy
nuclear missiles into Europe to target Russia, saying that they didn’t
intend to do so but might have to for deterrence purposes.
Congress was a perfect audience for this perspective, repeatedly giving
standing ovations to the NATO chief, and ending the speech by
reiterating America’s commitment to the alliance.
Is there no term limits in NATO leadership? Why is Stoltonberg still Secretary-General?
its very simple if you research.
The Secretary-General term is 4 years, he can apply for an extra 1 year……witch most of them do.
NATO is US war corporations cash cow with over 1 trillion annually in spending.
NATO needs eligibility to exist….so Russia with a 45 billion defense budget is the number one world threat.
That the alliance still exists, has little to do with its original purpose. Instead, NATO nowadays has emerged rather as an instrument for geopolitical expansion, aimed at boosting Western-countries’ arms industries, and promoting/protecting their corporate investments around the world.
“Congress was a perfect audience for this perspective, repeatedly giving standing ovations to the NATO chief”
Wow.
That is his job! Yesterday’s article here on antiwar showed what the USA really thinks of NATO, and the other members need to wake up and stop the demonizing of Russia, which refuses to waste money on hype and useless violence.
Like the previous NATO Secretary -General ( Rasmussen from Denmark ), NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg ( from Norway ) are sad and pathetic examples of willful puppets for the war corporation, war hawks, Neocons and Russophobes.
Stoltenberg forgot his countries history, it was the red army who liberated and kicked out the Nazis in his country….loosing 200.000 soldiers in the liberation.
The US who took the easy path, lost 500.000 soldiers in the entire WW2.