In 1992, US foreign policy exceptionalism reached a radical level. America has always seen itself as an exceptional nation. The collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 convinced a group of ardent ideologues (who became known as neoconservatives) that the United States should now dominate the world as the sole superpower. There were countless foreign policy blunders at the hands of the neoconservatives, but NATO Declaration 2024 They continue to push forward with neoconservative policies, bringing the world closer to nuclear war.
The neoconservatives were led by Richard Cheney, who served as Secretary of Defense in 1992. Every president since then – Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden – has pursued the neoconservative policy of US hegemony, leading the US into constant wars, including in Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Ukraine, and relentlessly pushing for NATO’s eastward expansion. In 1990, the United States and Germany made a clear promise to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. NATO will not move an inch further east.
The core idea of neoconservatism is that the United States should have military, financial, economic and political superiority over all potential rivals anywhere in the world. This is particularly targeted at rivals such as China and Russia, and pits the United States against them head-to-head. The arrogance of the United States is astonishing. Most of the world does not want to be led by the United States, much less by a nation that is so clearly militaristic, elitist and greedy.
The neocon plan for US military superiority Projects for a New American CenturyThis plan includes the relentless expansion of NATO eastward and its transformation from a defensive alliance against the now defunct Soviet Union into an offensive alliance to promote US hegemony. The US defense industry is the neoconservatives’ main financial and political backer. Led the lobbying for NATO’s eastward expansion It all started in the 1990s. Joe Biden has been a staunch neocon from the beginning, first as a senator, then as vice president, and now as president.
To achieve hegemony, the neocon plan is to use CIA regime change operations, US-led wars, and US overseas military bases (The company currently has approximately 750 overseas locations in at least 80 countries.), the militarization of advanced technologies (biological weapons, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, etc.), and the relentless use of information warfare.
The US quest for hegemony was the catalyst for the outbreak of the Ukrainian War between the world’s two largest nuclear powers, Russia and the US, which was precipitated by the US’s stubborn determination to expand NATO into Ukraine despite fierce Russian opposition, its participation in the violent Maidan coup (February 2014) that overthrew a neutral government, and the US undermining of the Minsk II Agreement, which called for autonomy for ethnic Russian regions in eastern Ukraine.
NATO’s manifesto calls it a defensive alliance, but that is not the case. NATO has engaged in a series of offensive operations, including regime change. NATO led the bombing of Serbia to split the country in two, and has established a large military base in the breakaway region of Kosovo. NATO has played a major role in many of America’s chosen wars. NATO’s bombing of Libya was used to topple the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.
The US pursuit of hegemony, which was arrogant and foolish in 1992, is a complete delusion today, because the US clearly faces a powerful rival that can compete with the US on the battlefield, in nuclear weapons deployment, and in the production and deployment of advanced technologies. China’s GDP is now about 30% larger than the US’s when measured in international prices, and China is a low-cost producer and supplier of many important green technologies, including EVs, 5G, solar power, wind power, and modular nuclear power. China’s productivity is now so high that the US complains about Chinese “excess capacity.”
Unfortunately, and worryingly, NATO’s declaration repeats the delusions of the neocons.
The declaration erroneously states that “Russia bears sole responsibility for the war of aggression against Ukraine,” despite U.S. provocations that led to the outbreak of war in 2014.
NATO Declaration Reaffirmed NATO Washington Treaty Article 10According to him, NATO’s eastward expansion is of no concern to Russia, but as the United States first declared in 1823 with the Monroe Doctrine and has reaffirmed ever since, it will never allow Russia or China to establish military bases on its borders (such as in Mexico).
The NATO declaration reaffirms NATO’s commitment to biological defense technology, despite growing evidence of U.S. involvement in that technology. NIH Biodefense Spending It funded the laboratory creation of the virus that may have caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
The NATO declaration stated that NATO intends to continue deploying Aegis anti-ballistic missiles (as are already deployed in Poland, Romania and Turkey) despite the serious destabilization of the nuclear arms control regime resulting from the U.S. withdrawal from the ABM Treaty and the deployment of Aegis missiles in Poland and Romania.
The NATO declaration shows no interest in peace talks in Ukraine.
The NATO Declaration emphasizes Ukraine’s “irreversible path to full Euro-Atlantic integration, including NATO membership.” But because Russia will never accept Ukraine as a member of NATO, this “irreversible” commitment is an irreversible commitment to war.
of The Washington PostReports Ahead of the NATO summit, Biden had strong reservations about committing to an “irreversible path” for Ukraine to join NATO, but his advisers dismissed those concerns.
The neoconservatives have brought countless disasters to the United States and the world, including several failed wars, the enormous increase in the U.S. public debt through trillions of dollars of military spending on wasteful wars, and increasingly dangerous conflicts between the U.S. and China, Russia, Iran, etc. Doomsday Clock In 1992 there were 17 minutes until midnight (nuclear war), whereas today there are just 90 seconds.
For the sake of American security and world peace, the United States must immediately abandon the neoconservative pursuit of hegemony and focus on diplomacy and peaceful coexistence.
Unfortunately, NATO has done the opposite.
