{"id":153311,"date":"2020-02-10T12:01:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T12:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=153311"},"modified":"2020-02-06T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T10:11:09","slug":"why-nato-doesnt-target-russia-nepal-is-the-new-enemy-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/02\/why-nato-doesnt-target-russia-nepal-is-the-new-enemy-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Why NATO Doesn\u2019t Target Russia? Nepal Is the New Enemy, Stupid!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NATOPressTV-jan-oberg-nepal-russia.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-153312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NATOPressTV-jan-oberg-nepal-russia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NATOPressTV-jan-oberg-nepal-russia.jpg 701w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NATOPressTV-jan-oberg-nepal-russia-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>4 Feb 2020 &#8211; <\/em>About 37,000 soldiers from 18 countries are to participate in the U.S.-run manoeuver dubbed <em>Defender Europe 2020<\/em> in May and June.<\/p>\n<p>This is \u201cthe largest deployment of U.S. troops to Europe in more than 25 years,\u201d NATO\u2019s Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg tells us. I assume, proudly.<\/p>\n<p>But wait \u2026<\/p>\n<p>What on Earth is NATO and its Secretary-General saying and doing? Do they live in the same world as the rest of us?<\/p>\n<p>How low should the intellectual level sink before it becomes a security risk for the world?<\/p>\n<p>And just how do they get away with deceiving the world with their militarised mantra about stability, security and peace \u2013 no matter it is always about more weapons and offensive military strength \u2013 <em>virtually without any important (if they are) mainstream media reporting it, not to mention ask questions about it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The last one is simple to answer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Censorship;<\/li>\n<li>Self-censorship;<\/li>\n<li>Framing; and<\/li>\n<li>The Military-Industrial-MEDIA-Academic Complex (MIMAC) \u2013 that is, the very close relations between media, governments and the military, particularly in the United States and vis-a-vis the allies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><em>No free media there!<\/em> <em>Like other things, militarism happens. With the world\u2019s military having 50 times \u2013 times! \u2013 higher budgets than the UN \u2013 and with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/2020\/01\/22\/how-many-millions-of-people-have-been-killed-in-americas-post-9-11-wars-part-one-iraq\/\" >millions of people killed for no good reason<\/a>, what could there be to talk about?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NATO citizen taxpayers are being cheated, treated like cattle. They get no security or peace for their money \u2013 why else are we closer to war than ever since 1945, trillions of dollars wasted by that MIMAC cancer?<\/p>\n<p>And with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eur.army.mil\/Portals\/19\/documents\/DEFENDEREurope\/DEFENDEREuropePhase1Infographic200121.pdf\" >20.000 pieces of heavy equipment being transported from the US to Europe<\/a>, not to speak of what 37.000 soldiers with their weapons and transport vehicles do to the environment in a series of countries <em>did anyone whisper\u2026 climate change?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of course not, what could there indeed be to discuss these very days?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>Here is the story on which this conversation is based, AFP in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2020\/02\/03\/world\/russia-not-target-u-s-armys-massive-europe-deployment-nato\/\" >The Japan Times<\/a>. <\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a little hiccup at the beginning of the video but that is where I say that if this is <em>not<\/em> targeting Russia \u2013 perhaps there is a fantasy in NATO\u2019s HQ that Nepal may soon become a global power and conquer all the lands up to NATO\u2019s Eastern border.<\/p>\n<p>So just wait for Stoltenberg to tell you that he has evidence that Nepal tries to acquire nukes and is an imminent danger to us all because, unlike NATO, it is expansive and aggressive.<\/p>\n<p>Wait for the demonisation of the Nepalese \u201cregime\u201d, the status of its human rights and democracy and wait for a Trump tweet that his whatever is bigger than Nepal\u2019s and he can blow up each and every historical site in that country about 350 times and even flatten its mountains too.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, such a thought conveys as much reality as Mr Stoltenberg seems capable of presenting with a straight face\u2026<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D_AfurwHM18&amp;feature=emb_logo<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Yes, Mr Stoltenberg, raise the intellectual level \u2013 that\u2019s the only armament NATO needs. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And the enemy is? \u2026 Yourselves! <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/2020\/01\/11\/in-these-interesting-times-black-humour-seems-more-relevant-than-serious-commenting\/\" >More of this here<\/a><\/em>\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/StoltenbergInCongress-jan-oberg-nato-usa.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-153313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/StoltenbergInCongress-jan-oberg-nato-usa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/StoltenbergInCongress-jan-oberg-nato-usa.jpg 586w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/StoltenbergInCongress-jan-oberg-nato-usa-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Mr Stoltenberg addressing the US Congress in April 2019 and getting the US blessing. <em>Photo distortion by Jan Oberg<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>\u2013 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YjLD_gpH8h4\" >the full video here<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>Further Reading:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eur.army.mil\/DefenderEurope\/\" >Defender Europe 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/infobrics.org\/post\/30229\/\" >NATO\u2019s upcoming exercise targeted against Kaliningrad<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>__________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/jan-oberg-e1544531797544.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-123949\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/jan-oberg-e1544531797544.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>TFF Director Prof. Jan Oberg is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/2020\/02\/04\/why-nato-doesnt-target-russia-nepal-is-the-new-enemy-stupid\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 transnational.live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 Feb 2020 &#8211; About 37,000 soldiers from 18 countries are to participate in the U.S.-run manoeuver dubbed Defender Europe 2020 in May and June. And just how do they get away with deceiving the world with their militarised mantra about stability, security and peace \u2013 no matter it is always about more weapons and offensive military strength \u2013 virtually without any important (if they are) mainstream media reporting it, not to mention ask questions about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":153312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[120,1458,278,70],"class_list":["post-153311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-conflict","tag-nepal","tag-russia","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}