NATO Plus should include India, argues a US House Committee controlled by weapons manufacturers

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, is a genocidal alliance. Responsible for millions of deaths around the globe, it has brought the world to the brink of nuclear war on multiple occasions.

An abridged version of this article was published in Global Times.

NATO’s beginnings were not exactly humble. It started off in the aftermath of WWII, when the imperialist western nations observed that since the pesky Nazi state had been taken care of and defeated — by the Soviet Union — it was time to focus attention on the real enemy: The Soviet Union. NATO was created to accomplish what the Nazis failed at: The destruction of Socialism.

So it should come as no surprise that the West and NATO rehabilitated Nazis that had escaped punishment at Nuremberg, including into top positions in NATO itself. While East Germany and the rest of the Socialist bloc rightly treated Nazi officials as war criminals — the West rewarded them.

Of the many such operations run by western regimes, Operation Paperclip by the US has received the most attention. Yet, what is publicly known about such Nazi rehabilitation programs is probably only the tip of the iceberg. While the US regime and its “independent” media publicly admit to assimilating a couple of thousand Nazis, the complete list probably numbers in the hundreds of thousands, at all levels. Notable Nazis embraced by the West include:

1. Adolf Heusinger, who served as Operations Chief in the Nazi German High Command and later became Hitler’s acting Chief of Staff, and was later made appointed Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
2. Walter Hallstein, a Wehrmacht artilleryman who later became one of the “founding fathers” of the European Union and its first President
3. Wernher von Braun, a hardcore Nazi scientist, a member of the Nazi Party and the Schutzstaffel (SS), who was later given a key NASA post and became the Chief Architect of the Saturn rocket
4. Kurt Waldheim, a passionately violent and anti-semitic Wehrmacht officer who was later made the Secretary General of the United Nations
5. Johann von Kielmansegg, General Staff officer of the Wehrmacht High Command, who was later made NATO’s Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe
6. Karl Schnell, First General Staff officer of the LXXVI Panzer Corps, who was later also made NATO’s Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe

The list goes on and on. Instead of facing trial for their war crimes and complicity in military aggression and genocide, these Nazis were awarded and promoted, and their crimes forgotten. A common hatred of Socialism united them and their white western brethren.

The white western world, where Nazism originated, never exactly de-nazified. Instead, it re-nazified.

NATO after the Soviet Union

A lesser man would’ve argued that once the Soviet Union fell, the ostensible purpose of NATO (to combat the Soviet “threat” — real or imagined) ceased to exist, and NATO should have disbanded. But that would be underestimating the barbaric nature of the white man.
As long as the USSR existed, the white man and his NATO could be kept in check. The Soviet Union presented a bulwark of peace to the savage alliance led by Americans and former Nazis. Once this safety valve disappeared, there was nothing stopping NATO from going back to its Nazi roots.

Thus, as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, NATO and its members went off on an international homicidal rampage. Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, Serbia and Kosovo in 1999, Afghanistan in 2001, Iraq in 2003, Libya and Syria in 2011, Ukraine since even before 2014…with who knows what else to come.

And this is not even counting NATO expansion. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Americans promised that NATO will not expand “one inch to the East”. Gorbachev should have known better than to trust the word of the white man. Russia’s key fault, should one ask Americans, is that it committed the cardinal sin of keeping its country too close to NATO member states.

China and Iran have committed similar crimes — they’ve kept their country too close to US military bases.

Globalizing NATO: When the original isn’t enough

A major problem that NATO faced was keeping up the façade of being a North Atlantic military organization. It has largely failed at the task. Today, the façade of being confined to the North Atlantic is no longer tenable. The US already considers the entire globe to be its backyard. Why should NATO, a US-led alliance, be any different?

NATO Plus is an extension of NATO, an excuse to bring in US’ cronies outside the North Atlantic: Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel and South Korea. This is basically an attempt to globalize NATO, similar to the “major non-NATO ally” designation of the US regime.

The latest attempt to test the waters of de-facto NATO expansion comes from the US regime’s “House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)”, a lazily named cabal controlled by US weapons manufacturers.
Late last month, the committee recommended that NATO Plus be strengthened to include India.

The aim of this move is apparently to “boost global defence cooperation” (code for increased weapons sales and profits) and win the “strategic competition with the Chinese Communist Party” (code for initiating war with China and blaming China for it).

Nazi Plus

The US for years has been trying to get India on its side, with barely any success. India has a long record of strategic non-alignment on paper, and multi-alignment based on national interest in practice. This has by now become the envy of developing nations across the globe, and an irritant to the US, which abhors strategic independence from any country.
A key objective of the US regime is to exploit differences between China and neighbors with whom it has boundary disputes. India is an obvious target.

The Philippines is another. Already a US treaty ally, it is also embroiled in maritime disputes with China over areas and islands in the South China Sea. So far, both countries have acted in a mature (i.e. non-western) manner and avoided their differences from turning into violent disputes. Such peaceful behavior troubles the US, which would prefer both nations to be at each other’s throats. Recently, the defense ministers of the Philippines, Japan, Australia, and the US participated in the first-ever defense ministerial talks involving the four countries.

Could the US regime’s efforts to get India to join NATO Plus succeed? The committee that suggested it has little power, so the recommendation could simply be a way of testing the waters and keeping China on its toes. India’s attempts at maintaining its strategic independence, such as its refusal to condemn Russia for a war in Ukraine that NATO initiated, makes Washington insecure. It is not used to nations making up their own minds.
India is unlikely to take this bonkers proposal seriously, especially one that is transparently intended as a geopolitical “feeler” without any detail on how it would work. Moreover, India also has its military relationship with Russia to consider, not to mention that this is the same alliance whose members keep selling weapons to Pakistan, a “major non-NATO ally” of the US.

Yet, the move exposes US’ impatience with India’s independent foreign policy. Lacking an official statement from NATO or its leader the US, India is wisely keeping quiet and continuing its policy of keeping out of US-China fights (i.e. US aggression on China) as long as its own interests are not involved. As Deng Xiaoping would put it, hide your strength and bide your time.