📌 TFF PressInfo # 740: NATO is getting desperate as its future is at stake in Ukraine

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Lund, Sweden - April 19, 2024

Dear friend,

Listen to the former British PM, Boris Johnson, and read his column in The Daily Mail to understand what the headline refers to. And, no, he is not a TFF Associate… 😂

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Then read and watch the (Breaking News) press conference at NATO’s HQ a couple of days ago: “NATO's Stoltenberg says that supporting Ukraine is more important than meeting NATO capability targets.” Yes, you read it correctly: NATO now gathers all its strength on the - tragically desperate - goal of ensuring that Ukraine wins and Russia loses.

It’s a complete violation of NATO’s Treaty according to which it shall collectively defend a NATO member that has been attacked. This new priority will undermine the defence of the alliance itself, and it is likely to split it politically when the going begins to get really rough.

Thanks to this “export disarmament” - self-disarmament through exporting everything to Ukraine - NATO will become weaker and weaker. Its despair comes into daylight while it is - so morally - fighting its formidable enemy to the last Ukrainian and allegedly trying to prevent Russia from taking one NATO country after the other after Ukraine.

There is indeed something very rotten in the state of NATO. Johnson puts his finger on it: the West will lose its hegemony, which will be a catastrophe. And it has only itself to blame. That is so true from a man who is otherwise not bothered by being truthful: The West and NATO risk collapsing because they fight a hopeless, illegal, and hubris-hybrid war in a country that is strategically unimportant and in which NATO has no legitimacy. Boris Johnson doesn’t even blame Putin for that! He blames “ourselves”!

Tragic and self-destructive beyond words, this militarist kakistocracy will not survive for long. Why? Because it knows nothing only weapons, armament, warfare and militarism. It does not know conflict resolution, mediation, dialogue, common security, fair shared principles, ethics, prudence, long-term analysis, impact assessment, empathy, negotiations, diplomacy - and all the rest that might create statesmanship. And peace.

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• Why Biden Doesn't Want Americans to Visit Russia

• New Containment: More NATO Expansion by Another Name

• Three Avoidable Catastrophes

• Morality challenged: The moral void of the West

• The West’s Coming Fall and the Rise of the New Multipolar World in 7 Minutes

• The Short-lived NATO-Russia Honeymoon

• The Pursuit of Global Democracy & Global Governance

• Russia is not a threat to NATO or neutral states. Full stop.

• Spartakus’ Medieovervåkerne: Militariseringen av Norden

• Ukrainekrigen kunne være undgået så let som indenting

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