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By Rick Rozoff (about the author)
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"The presence of U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe remains a pillar of NATO unity."
The combination of US nuclear warheads in Europe and the expansion of the NATO Alliance and US missile
interceptor sites to encircle Russia on its eastern, southern and western borders is a far more threatening development than anything that occurred during the Cold War.
Recent surveys show two-thirds of Czech opposed to the US missile radar site with 71% demanding a referendum
on the issue and 54% of Poles in opposition to having their nation turned into a potential ground zero in a cataclysmic missile war.
Czechs and Poles clearly realize the danger that most of the rest of the world has been oblivious but can no
longer remain indifferent to except at its own peril, perhaps at the risk of its very survival.
The half century long stationing of US nuclear warheads throughout Europe and current plans to deploy US missiles and missile radar sites on the continent's eastern perimeter would both be impossible, would be inconceivable, if the nations and peoples of Europe were not enchained by an increasingly ambitious and expansive military bloc that places bases, nuclear arms and missiles on their soil and sends their sons and daughters to kill and die in 21st Century colonial wars of conquest and domination.
As self-styled global NATO prepares its 60th anniversary, first bi-national, summit in France and Germany this April, the abolition of this, history's first, attempt at an international aggressive military axis must be brought to an end.
Become a Fan (12 fans) -- Page 5 of 5 page(s)
The combination of US nuclear warheads in Europe and the expansion of the NATO Alliance and US missile
interceptor sites to encircle Russia on its eastern, southern and western borders is a far more threatening development than anything that occurred during the Cold War.
Recent surveys show two-thirds of Czech opposed to the US missile radar site with 71% demanding a referendum
on the issue and 54% of Poles in opposition to having their nation turned into a potential ground zero in a cataclysmic missile war.
Czechs and Poles clearly realize the danger that most of the rest of the world has been oblivious but can no
longer remain indifferent to except at its own peril, perhaps at the risk of its very survival.
The half century long stationing of US nuclear warheads throughout Europe and current plans to deploy US missiles and missile radar sites on the continent's eastern perimeter would both be impossible, would be inconceivable, if the nations and peoples of Europe were not enchained by an increasingly ambitious and expansive military bloc that places bases, nuclear arms and missiles on their soil and sends their sons and daughters to kill and die in 21st Century colonial wars of conquest and domination.
As self-styled global NATO prepares its 60th anniversary, first bi-national, summit in France and Germany this April, the abolition of this, history's first, attempt at an international aggressive military axis must be brought to an end.
Rick Rozoff has been involved in anti-war and anti-interventionist work in various capacities for forty years.
He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Is the manager of the Stop NATO international email list at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato/
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