{"id":158669,"date":"2020-04-20T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=158669"},"modified":"2020-04-19T06:23:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T05:23:20","slug":"nato-in-arms-to-fight-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/04\/nato-in-arms-to-fight-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO in Arms to \u201cFight Coronavirus\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 30 NATO foreign ministers (Luigi Di Maio for Italy) met on April 2 by video conference and instructed US general Tod Wolters, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to \u201ccoordinate the necessary military support to fight the\u00a0 coronavirus crisis\u201d.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

7 Apr 2020 –<\/em>\u00a0He is the same general who declared in the United States Senate on February 25 \u201cnuclear forces are supporting every US military operation in Europe<\/i>\u201d and \u201d I am a fan of a flexible first-use policy\u201d\u00a0<\/i>of nuclear weapons,\u00a0<\/i>that is nuclear attack by surprise\u00a0<\/i>(\u201cDr. Strangelove\u00a0 takes care of our health\u201d,<\/i>\u00a0Il manifesto, March 24).<\/span><\/p>\n

General Wolters is the supreme commander of NATO as head of the United States European Command. He is therefore part of the Pentagon\u2019s chain of command, which has absolute priority.<\/span>\u00a0<\/i>Its strict rules are confirmed by a recent episode: the aircraft carrier Roosevelt commander, Brett Crozier, was removed from command because he violated military secrecy by urging aid sending, faced with the spread of the coronavirus on board.<\/span><\/p>\n

To \u201cfight coronavirus crisis<\/i>\u201c, General Wolters has \u201c<\/span>fast-track paths through Europe\u2019s airspace for military flights<\/span><\/i>\u201c, while civilian flights have almost disappeared.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fast-track paths\u00a0<\/span><\/i>are also used by the US strategic bombers B2-Spirit for nuclear attack: on March 20, they took off from Fairford in England, together with Norwegian F-16 fighters, they flew to the Arctic towards Russian territory. In this way \u2013 General Basham, deputy commander of the US Air Force in Europe \u2013 explains \u201cwe can promptly and effectively respond to threats in the region, demonstrating our determination to bring our fighting power everywhere in the world\u201d.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Doctor Strangelove Takes Care of Our Health<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i>While NATO is committed to \u201cfighting coronavirus<\/i>\u201d in Europe, two of the major European Allies, France and Great Britain, sent their warships to the Caribbean.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The amphibious assault ship Dixmund sailed on April 3 from Toulon to French Guiana for what President Macron calls \u201can unprecedented military operation<\/i>\u201c. called \u201cResilience<\/i>\u201c, in the framework of the \u201cwar to coronavirus<\/i>\u201c.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dixmund can perform the secondary function of hospital ship with 69 beds and 7 for intensive care. The primary role of this large ship, 200 m long and with a flight deck of 5000 m2, is that of amphibious assault: approaching the enemy coast, it attacks with dozens of helicopters and landing crafts transporting troops and armored vehicles.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Similar characteristics, albeit on a smaller scale, has the British ship RFA Argus, which sailed on April 2 to British Guyana.<\/span><\/p>\n

The two European ships will take position in the same Caribbean waters near Venezuela, where the war fleet is arriving \u2013 with the most modern coastal combat ships (also built by Italian Leonardo Company for US Navy) and thousands of marines \u2013 sent by President Trump officially to stop drug trafficking.<\/span><\/p>\n

He accuses Venezuelan President Maduro of \u201ctaking advantage of the coronavirus crisis to increase the drug trafficking, he finances his narco-state with<\/i>\u201c. The purpose of the operation, supported by NATO, is to strengthen the embargo tightening to economically strangle Venezuela (a country with the largest oil reserves in the world), whose situation is aggravated by the coronavirus that has started to spread.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The aim is to depose regularly elected President Maduro (on whose head the US has placed a $ 15 million bounty) and to establish a government that will bring the country into the sphere of US domination. It cannot be excluded that an incident could be caused as a pretext for the invasion of Venezuela. The coronavirus crisis creates favorable international conditions for an operation of this type, perhaps presented as \u201c<\/span>humanitarian<\/i>\u201c.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Manlio Dinucci, geographer and geopolitical scientist. In the 1980s, he directed the magazine <\/em>Lotta per la Pace (born from “Appeal against the installation of nuclear missiles in Italy”) and was Executive Director for Italy of the <\/em>International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, <\/em>winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. <\/em><\/strong>His latest books are <\/em>L\u2019arte della guerra\/Annali della strategia USA\/NATO 1990-2016, Zambon 2016; <\/em>Guerra Nucleare Il Giorno Prima, Zambon Editore; 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This article was originally published in Italian on <\/em>Il Manifesto, translated by Jean Toschi Marazzani Visconti.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
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Copyright \u00a9 Manlio Dinucci<\/a>, Global Research, 2020<\/em><\/div>\n
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The 30 NATO foreign ministers met on 2 Apr 2020 by video conference and instructed US General Tod Wolters, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to \u201ccoordinate the necessary military support to fight the\u00a0 coronavirus crisis\u201d. He is the same general who declared in the US Senate on 25 Feb that \u201cnuclear forces are supporting every US military operation in Europe\u201d and \u201dI am a fan of a flexible first-use policy\u201d\u00a0of nuclear weapons,\u00a0that is nuclear attack by surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":112211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1829,1868,1268,1105,91,450,112,95],"class_list":["post-158669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-militarism","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-european-union","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-nato","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-pentagon","tag-us-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158669","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=158669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}