NATO is the abbreviation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which is a strategic defense organization established by the United States during the Cold War in order to confront the Soviet Union and maintain the leading position of the United States in Europe.
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Like the Warsaw Pact, NATO, which was born out of the Cold War, should have been dissolved after the end of the Cold War, but NATO has existed to this day and is growing in size. Musk, the richest man in the world, once raised a question, what is the purpose of NATO's existence when the Warsaw Pact has been dissolved?
Spoiled NATO
The emergence of NATO is a product of the Cold War pattern, and its existence is understandable, but since the end of the Cold War, NATO, as a military organization, has lost its imaginary enemy, and naturally it has lost the significance of its existence.
【Warsaw Pact Army】
Previously, another billionaire David Sachs actually questioned today's NATO, saying that as soon as the Cold War ended, the organization was actually given a new mission by the U.S. government, that is, to continue to expand eastward.
NATO's official statement on this is to unite with European countries to prevent war, but in fact, after the end of the Cold War, the world has entered a stage of relatively calm development, but on the contrary, all wars that have broken out in the world since the Cold War are inseparable from NATO.
Today, Musk's question once again points to the essence of NATO, the purpose of its existence is not the self-defense of the Western world, but the global aggressive hegemony.
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After the end of the Cold War, NATO's imaginary enemy changed from the Soviet Union to Russia, which inherited the mantle of the Soviet Union, or all countries that could pose a threat and challenge to Western hegemony.
NATO is a purely military organization, and its solution to the problem is military means, so NATO's value is actually based on the military superiority of the West, and once this superiority disappears, NATO will quickly fall apart.
The continuous advancement of the Russian-Ukrainian war is a good proof of this, although NATO has always declared that it will fight against Russia, but NATO is not monolithic.
【NATO Forces】
The fundamental reason is that many countries know that the current NATO has no military advantage in the face of Russia, so why should it fight if it cannot win?
Many NATO member states are very small, and the slightest carelessness can reduce the military strength of the entire country, so many NATO members are unwilling to participate in direct confrontation with Russia.
To put it simply, the reason why NATO is hesitant to act is because it does not see the chance of doing so, especially after the terrorist attack on Moscow on March 22, 2024, NATO countries see that Russia has the intention of taking the initiative to escalate the scale of the war, and they dare not act rashly.
【Terrorist Attack Site】
In the final analysis, the reason why the Russian-Ukrainian conflict broke out is because NATO's expansion has touched Russia's bottom line, but in the face of Russia's bottoming out, NATO does not have enough military strength to complete the suppression, which has made it what it is now.
The imaginary enemy is not only Russia
NATO's imaginary enemy is any country or power that could threaten the hegemony of the Western world, which means that China has met NATO's definition of a pick-and-choose enemy from the start.
In the context of the deep conflict between Russia and Ukraine, NATO is still trying to intervene in the strategic confrontation between the Asia-Pacific region and China.
【NATO Military Exercises】
In the future, NATO is likely to enter East Asia and directly participate in the suppression of China.
This is not alarmist, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand and other Asia-Pacific countries have been deeply involved in NATO meetings and decision-making, which is actually paving the way for NATO to confront China in the future.
These Asia-Pacific countries also intend to collude with NATO, for example, South Korea is currently supplying 155mm artillery shells to Ukraine through intermediate channels, and now South Korean artillery shells have even become the main force in aiding Ukraine.
[Aid received by Ukraine]
NATO's thinking is very simple, but fortunately, neither Russia nor China is a target that NATO or the United States can easily defeat now.
The Russian army is currently in the war phase of the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield and Ukraine, and after more than 2 years of fierce fighting, Ukraine's war potential has been almost exhausted.
If Moscow's terrorist attacks are in Russia's hands in the future, it is indeed an unrestricted war planned by Ukraine and the West, and Russia is likely to escalate its special military operation into war in Ukraine.
【Russia-Ukraine War】
This means that the good times of the past two years in many cities in western Ukraine are coming to an end, and in fact, just after the terrorist attack, the Russian army has used a large number of missiles to attack the military command center in the city of Kyiv.
If the Russian army really intends to go all out to take Ukraine, I am afraid that the war in Ukraine will not last too long.
And NATO, which cannot take Russia, is even weaker in the face of China.
First of all, the United States, as NATO's core combat force, has lost its military superiority over China in the Asia-Pacific region.
The United States cannot be hard, and it is not China's opponent if it is soft, and China can seize the initiative in the economic offensive launched by the United States by relying on its huge economic size.
【Chinese Economy】
The United States is now being roasted on the fire by China and Russia, and has no way to advance the anti-hegemony process.
At present, the United States is being encircled and suppressed by anti-US forces and countries in the Middle East, let alone continuing to maintain a strategic presence in the Middle East, and even Israel may not be able to keep it.
The collapse of the U.S. Middle East strategy will have a ripple effect, and the pressure on the United States and NATO on other fronts will increase.
【Middle East Turmoil】
In fact, the process of counter-hegemony and multipolarization that China and Russia are currently promoting is beneficial to many NATO countries, including the United States, especially the concept of multipolarization, which means that more countries will gain dominance in the region, and this is what many NATO member countries dream of.
Compared with the current strategic system that has been violently sucked by the United States, a multipolar world will bring more opportunities for development, and as the confrontation between the East and the West intensifies, the balance of victory will also tilt more and more in favor of China and Russia.
Sources:
The United States seeks to reduce NATO's contribution to 16%, and the rest is shared by member states.overseas.2019-11-28 [Cited 2019-11-28]
[2] NATO's two aircraft carrier strike group military exercises, US aircraft carriers listen to NATO's command for the first time.Look at the newsKnews [Citation date: 2022-02-09]