NATO 70 YEARS
n 2019 NATO had its 70th anniversary. The video below, from the Italian Pandora TV, shows what NATO has ”accomplished” under its existence.
Speaker:
In 1945 Pentagon calculated that 200 nuclear bombs would be enough to destroy the Soviet Union. When Soviet in 1949 got possession of the atomic bomb, USA created NATO. In 1955 the Warsaw Pact was formed. Between 1945 to 1991 USA and USSR stored in their nuclear arsenals and in seven other countries a power equivalent to more than 1 million Hiroshima bombs.
THE DEMOLITION OF YUGOSLAVIA
The Cold War ended with the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union in 1991. USA used this opportunity to launch the first conflict of the post-cold war period (Iraq). Several NATO-Countries were involved in this war and simultaneously NATO extended eastwards towards Russia. The first step was the demolition of the socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. US and NATO initiated this by supporting secessionist schools and catalyzing Yugoslavia’s internal conflicts. In February 1994 NATO warplanes shut down certain Bosnia planes over Bosnia. This was the first act of war since the foundation of this alliance.
NATO-countries included in the attack on Yugoslavia were Great Britain, Germany, Italy and France. The attack was called ’Allied Force Operation’ and began on March 24 1999. For 78 days 1.100 warplanes taking off principally from Italian bases, carried out 38 000 raids, dropping 23, 000 bombs and missiles. The bombing dismantled structures and infrastructure of Serbia, causing thousands of civilian victims. Chemical sites were bombed causing long-term damage to health and environment. Simultaneously a NATO summit was held in Washington in April 1999. They decided that NATO.s member countries could carry out crisis retaliation operations not provided for by U.N. article 5 outside the Alliance territory.
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