MB Civic

“Now, the alleged reason for NATO’s existence was to protect the West against a Russian assault… By 1989, that reason was gone. So, why is there NATO? … Is it for defending Europe from attack? … right after the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago .. Bush I, immediately released a national security strategy [which says] everything is going to go on exactly as before, but with new pretexts. So now we have to have a huge military establishment and military budget, and not to protect ourselves from the Russians, who are collapsing, but because—literally, because of the technological sophistication of third world powers” – Chomsky .. read more