On the eve of the NATO summit, people from various European and American countries gave negative reviews. Capital | NATO | Summit
Beijing, July 10th (Xinhua) - The NATO summit will be held from the 11th to the 12th in the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius. On the eve of the summit, anti war activists from France and Britain took to the streets to criticize NATO's belligerence and call for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine; Officials and experts from multiple European and American countries have condemned NATO's expansion ambitions as the greatest threat to peace.
Denuncing NATO's Warmongering Essence
NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg recently stated that member country leaders will reiterate at the summit that Ukraine will join NATO in the future, agree on a multi-year aid plan for Ukraine, and develop a new regional deterrence and defense plan.
Supporters of the British anti war group "Stop the War Alliance" held protests and demonstrations in Glasgow, Durham and other places on the 8th, calling for the start of peace negotiations as soon as possible to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The Stop War Alliance believes that NATO's efforts to expand into Eastern Europe are an integral part of the development of the Ukrainian crisis.
On the same day, during a march in Paris, France, many participants expressed that France should withdraw from NATO. Selge, who participated in the parade, said that NATO represents war, and war is a means for the United States to engage in expansionism, using the people of other countries to serve its own economic interests. Another participant, Mary Anger, said that NATO member countries are obedient to the belligerent United States, which wants the war to continue in order to sell arms.
On February 19th, in Washington, D.C., a protester held up a sign and attended a rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Jie
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Brian Becker, the head of the well-known American anti war organization "Take Immediate Action to Stop War and Eliminate racism," said that NATO's largest air military exercise since its establishment in June is a dangerous provocation.
German Federal Parliament member Sevim Dadellen recently stated in a written interview with Xinhua News Agency that the United States and its NATO allies have launched a "proxy war" against Russia by providing Ukraine with a large number of weapons and dispatching military advisors, hoping to defeat Russia through a combination of military power and a total economic war. The upcoming NATO summit may further escalate the crisis in Ukraine.
Expose NATO's expansion ambitions
NATO announced that leaders from Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand will also be invited to attend this summit. Stoltenberg stated that this move is because NATO's security is "not regional, but global.".
On July 6th, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg held a press conference after the meeting. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zheng Huansong
In response, Darren stated that NATO is a key tool for the United States to implement its security and military policies, and the United States enjoys absolute hegemony within NATO. NATO plans to establish a so-called liaison office in Japan, which once again reflects the ambition of the US led NATO to gain global hegemony.
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Da Dailun believes that NATO will strengthen its relations with Asian allies such as Japan and South Korea during its eastward expansion into the Asia Pacific region, in order to better safeguard its own interests. NATO is attempting to place the Pacific and other regions within its sphere of influence, "as part of NATO's deadly expansion policy.".
NATO is a product of group confrontation during the Cold War. Helga Zep Larush, founder and chairman of the Schiller Institute, a German think tank, pointed out that NATO, which was supposed to end after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in 1991, has shifted from a regional defensive organization to a global aggressive treaty with the aim of maintaining a unipolar world structure. NATO's expansion into the Indo Pacific region is very dangerous, and its expansion ambitions pose the greatest threat to peace.
On April 4th, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Finnish President Ninisto spoke at the Finnish accession ceremony. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zheng Huansong
Pere Ortega, honorary chairman of Spain's Dras Peace Research Center and professor of the Open University of Catalonia, said: "After the end of the cold war, NATO should disappear logically, but it has not, and is still looking for new enemies." NATO's eastward expansion and pressure on Russia is one of the main reasons for the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Ortega believes that NATO's expansion policy is "contrary to current world trends" and has led to multiple wars and regional conflicts. He said, "Since the end of the Cold War, it has intervened and bombed wherever it liked."
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