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The West closes ranks for the battle


by Manlio Dinucci

Two summits one after the other, those of the G7 and NATO, demonstrate that the West is putting on the ground all its weapons – military, political, economic – to maintain the predominance it is losing in a world that is becoming more and more multipolar, as shown by the growing development of the BRICS: the economic organisation that brings together Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, to which Iran, Argentina and other countries want to join. 

In Ukraine, while the G7 is supplying Kiev with $30 billion, NATO is supplying it with increasing quantities of weapons against Russia. NATO's role is not just this, however: Pentagon officials interviewed by the New York Times confirm for the first time, with precise facts, that the command and management of military operations in Ukraine is in the hands of the Pentagon and NATO.

The NATO Summit endorsed the new Strategic Concept, which defines Russia as "the most significant threat to the security of Allies" and states that "strategic competition is growing worldwide". In the new Strategic Concept, NATO speaks for the first time explicitly about China, stating that "China's coercive policies challenge our interests, security and values."

We are facing a single strategy of war that the West operates from Europe to East Asia. While in Europe NATO under US command is expanding from 30 to 32 countries, including Sweden and Finland...in Asia and the Pacific it is increasing the military deployment of the United States, supported mainly by Australia and Japan. In the Pacific, the world's largest naval maneuver under US command is taking place against China.

All this has a cost and it is always us who pay. According to official NATO data, Italian military spending in 2022 amounts to about €29 billion, equivalent to €80 million per day. The largest increase was during the period of lockdowns: from 21 billion in 2019 it rose to more than 26 billion in 2020 and to more than 28 billion in 2021. But NATO warns: "Doing more will cost more." 



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