The NATO Summit and the expectation of the Cold War
Some experts see the crisis in Ukraine as the beginning of a new cold war, writes Cumhuriyet. The author of the article explains why the United States benefits from such a development. They will not succeed, he emphasizes.
Barış Doster
Yesterday, June 28, in Madrid, the capital of Spain, the NATO summit began, which will end tomorrow. The agenda is well-known: the conflict in Ukraine, the membership of Sweden and Finland in the North Atlantic Alliance, the details of the position regarding Russia and China. Since NATO is essentially an instrument of aggression and occupation of American imperialism, and the expansion of the organization, the increase in the budget allocated by members for weapons, and the targeting of the alliance to countries objecting to American hegemony completely coincide with the interests of the United States, many commentators call the Madrid summit one of the most important in the history of the alliance. There are also many who see the beginning of a new cold war in the Ukrainian conflict. Is it so? Let's discuss it...
First, let's answer the following question: who needs a new cold war? The answer is obvious. To those who want to polarize the world, sell more weapons and earn money, strengthen influence on their allies, prolong the life of NATO, create artificial enemies, place bases around the world and fill the seas with aircraft carriers. In other words, the USA.
Secondly, capitalism cannot live without a crisis, which under such a system is structural and fundamental. The structural crisis is accompanied by cyclical crises. Economic depressions, wars, fluctuations in energy prices and sharp falls in stock markets should be considered in this context. The pandemic, the disruptions in supply chains that followed, and, finally, the conflict in Ukraine exacerbated the crisis even more.
Thirdly, during the Ukrainian conflict, Russia, contrary to Washington's expectations, did not kneel, its economy did not collapse. Although the American arms industry is happy, and the influence of the United States on NATO is increasing, inflation in the United States has reached the highest level in the last 40 years. In addition, a large number of countries do not comply with sanctions against Russia. Among them are Washington's allies. The efforts of these states to build close relations with China, Russia, and Iran also cause headaches for the United States.
The US will not reach the goal
Fourth, the United States, despite all the pressure exerted, could not get everything they wanted from Germany and France in the context of anti-Russian measures. Berlin and Paris resisted, especially in the energy sector. For this reason, the United Kingdom, one of the two strategic allies of the United States in the world (the second such ally is Israel), is more active in the Ukrainian issue and is doing everything possible to prolong the conflict.
In short, in the Cold War, the parties were known, as were their political economic models, ideologies, allies, leading powers and even geographical regions. On the one hand, communism, the Warsaw Pact, the USSR; on the other, capitalism, NATO, the USA. Germany was divided into Western and Eastern. The Berlin Wall was a symbol of the Cold War. Today that world is not there. China, which Washington considers the biggest enemy in the medium and long term, is the largest foreign trade partner of the United States and the EU. Mutual trade and investment are enormous. In other words, from the point of view of economic relations, trade in energy resources, foreign trade, there is a serious closeness, cooperation and even interdependence between the countries these days. Considering also the dizzying dynamics of events in the field of transport and communications, it is simply impossible to divide the world into two camps. That's why US efforts are futile.
