this is unofficial english traslation of a document of PCm Italy about last NATO SUMMIT in Poland - this is the third part of 5
Afghanistan
Afghanistan has been another
major topic at the NATO summit. During the whole summit, US has
revived and then imposed the continuation of the war of aggression,
invasion and military occupation in Afghanistan.
The shameless liar, fake
pacifist, Obama, had already denied in recent months the decision to
end the mission at the end of 2015, in any case within the term of
his office, but at the summit the military occupation of Afghanistan
has been protracted until 2020, a purely indicative date.
NATO is fully aligned with
him and the Deputy Secretary-General for NATO operations, Patrick
Turner, confirmed that the “Resolute Support Mission” aims to
train the Afghan armed forces with the funding and direction of NATO
until 2020.
It is the clear admission
that the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan has not been
successful and the puppet regime and its armed forces, in spite of
the endless military and financial support, in spite of the farcical
elections, do not have a basis in the country and would fall in half
a day without the imperialist occupation.
In the Mission in Afghanistan
a special and even more war-mongering role is played by Italy,
guaranteed by the Renzi government of and the Italian military
hierarchies, branches of US and NATO - but we speak of this in a
separate article.
The essence is an increase of
US troops and, as stated by a press release of the White House: “39
countries, including NATO and other allies are committed to a
participation of 11 thousand soldiers ... 4 allies have a leading
role, Germany in the North, Italy in the West, Turkey in the capital,
US in the East and South of Afghanistan.”
IE, on the one hand Obama
raised the American presence, on the other hand. he got a bigger
financial and military effort of the whole NATO and some countries in
particular.
The NATO Secretary,
Stoltenberg, spoke about funding for the Mission in Afghanistan of
about 5 billion dollars until 2020. An open-ended effort, but also
without a future. Even the Sole 24 Ore
comments: “The American presence in Afghanistan drags on without a
clear strategic view. Any exit strategy has proved to be a disaster.
Nor we understand how they could not stabilize Afghanistan when
having 125 thousand troops, while the new Mission relies on a little
more than 13 thousands.”
The truth they do not
recognize is that imperialism, its aggressions, invasions, with all
the burden of terror, massacres of civilians, barbarities as Abu
Ghraib, Guantanamo etc., is within a losing spiral. The peoples are
those who resist and attack, even when their leadership is not
represented by communist, proletarian, revolutionary, genuine
anti-imperialist forces. If this condition was realized, the US
imperialists and the mercenary soldiers of the allied imperialist
troops, including Italians, would be massacred and expelled, we would
have had another Vietnam.
That is why all
anti-imperialist and progressive individuals can only rejoice for any
stalemate that imperialist troops suffer and support the people’s
resistance and, in particular, the forces that in Afghanistan follow
the strategy of the resistance people’s war.
The decisions of the NATO
Summit on Afghanistan are not a demonstration of the strength of
imperialism or of a particular malice, but only of a desperate
weakness.
Syria, Middle
East ...
The NATO Summit could not
omit to deal with another major war scenario, the arc from Syria,
Middle East, North Africa.
However, the US-led
imperialist aggression against the peoples of the Middle East under
the pretext of ISIS was not the focus of this Summit. On this
prevailed a tired continuity, the lack of way out and, to a certain
extent, the need to maintain the collusion with Russian imperialism
and its agents in this region.
The imperialist and NATO
offensive is in full swing with bombings and operations on the ground
resulting in huge civilian casualties.
The South front of the NATO
action, goes through a period of confusion. The goals of US
imperialist, Syria first, are clear but the action on the ground has
become a shocking twine of treacherous allies, forces which operate
on the field each with its own interest and make inextricable any
solution, with the only result of endless massacres of populations,
that at the same time force a massive wave of migration, along with
the "homecoming" of the war, undesired by imperialists.
The important issue at this
stage is the fact that while in the development of the imperialist
action in the Eastern Europe or Afghanistan US imperialism dominates
and rules, things get complicated within NATO itself when it comes to
Syria or Iraq. the NATO allies feel their full involvement in the
operations in Syria and Iraq be a strategic error and fear more and
more the "homecoming" of war. But the spiral they triggered
cannot be stopped.
All the imperialist
countries, and then the NATO itself, every day make a step ahead, but
in most of cases it is done motu proprio
and with disordered forms, in a context of unstable alliances, in
which the role of Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia is increasingly
influential.
Indeed, these countries tend,
time to time, to establish relationships of cooperation or conflict,
not only between themselves but also with Russian imperialism, the
forces supporting it, its direct military action.
In all this, US imperialism,
in spite of its hegemony and direct intervention, is discredited in
terms of the actual ability to play a global leadership. The main
contradiction is that on the one hand the ISIS is declared the main
common enemy, on the other hand, the US and some of its allies first
want to overthrow the Assad regime. To say Assad regime means to say
Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas.
So NATO fails to find on this
a common understanding that goes beyond words.
Therefore, the imperialist
aggression in Syria and the fight against the ISIS are a weak link of
the alleged revival of NATO as global place of the imperialist bloc.
Nor the situation changes a
lot if we extend the scene to Libya, where US imperialism is pursuing
the direct domain of regimes and occupation of lands, also with
military bases, which is not only at the expense of the peoples of
the entire region, but feeds also the inter-imperialist conflict with
other imperialist countries having the same goal.
On the other hand, the war in
Libya, with the fall of Gaddafi, far from stabilizing the imperialist
position, has fully proved to have undermined it and pushed Libya in
a war of repartition, where the NATO, despite the decisions of
intervention, moves according to a subordinate and subsidiary logic,
to the direct moves carried out by the imperialist states, each of
which has its own secret or official troops on the ground in support
to the different factions in contention, not only in Libya but also
in the increasingly important Tunisia; and Morocco and Algeria also
will be soon part of the conflict.
La soeur d’Adama Traoré, Assa, tente de s’expliquer avec la police.AFP/Dominique Faget
La préfecture a accusé réception de la demande de la famille Traoré vendredi, trop tard pour obtenir l’autorisation.LP/Edith Lasry
Plusieurs centaines de personnes avaient fait le déplacement.LP/Edith Lasry
