A-Infos (en) Czech, AFED: A3: What is silent about in NATO? (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

It is necessary for Ukraine to repel the racist invasion - perhaps with the help 
of NATO. But this alliance is no saint, as the example of Turkey proves. 
Download, print and distribute the July issue of the A3 wall newspaper! ---- The 
military invasion of Putin's Russia on the territory of Ukraine has been going on 
for five months. Only fools would believe some of Putin's propaganda about the 
reasons for this murderous rampage, despite how intensively his fifth column of 
professional disinformers and useful idiots operate within individual European 
countries. Its target is the people of Ukraine, regardless of whether they are 
soldiers, non-soldiers, women, pensioners or children. Despite all the nonsense 
about the de-Nazification and demilitarization of Ukraine, Putin and his cohorts 
have only one thing in mind - to conquer Ukraine, to restore the empire and 
spheres of influence from Soviet times.
Putin and his invading horde were undoubtedly surprised in the first days by the 
determination of the people of Ukraine to resist the coming occupation. It 
surprised even the countries operating within NATO. They offered the Ukrainian 
president the possibility of escape. But he behaved a little differently than the 
rest of the European opportunists, and his first thought was not to save his own 
neck. However, it is not about him (the determined resistance of a significant 
part of the population is decisive), however, it does not nicely illustrate the 
attitude of the West, which was actually willing to sacrifice Ukraine.

It also points to the fact that this is not a battle of imperial blocs. Such 
thinking only speaks volumes about its bearers, who, in their preoccupation with 
their own power and cultural supremacy, deny the people of Ukraine the ability to 
judge, make decisions and act on their own. Putin's Russia invaded a neighboring 
sovereign country, and that's about it. And also about the fact that if Russia 
were to win, nothing nice would await the survivors - not even the few freedoms 
they had within the somewhat oligarchic capitalism, which although exploits the 
workers like any other form of capitalism, leaves at least some room for social 
self-organization and leadership struggles for workers' rights. This would not 
even be conceivable in the case of occupation.

We anarchists express solidarity with the workers and all other underprivileged 
people in Ukraine, and therefore we wish them victory over the invasion of the 
imperial power. We also wish them that this military victory will serve as a 
springboard for further victories, namely in the social field. And that there is 
something to fight for! We in the Czech Republic feel it, too, in the 
ever-increasing cost of living in contrast to the increase in the profits of the 
richest.

If the NATO countries had the real will and willingness, it is conceivable that 
the murderous pressure of the Russian Federation would have been broken long ago. 
But most of the political representation is in the wake of big business, which 
benefits from relations with Russia. So we can see the apparent and hidden 
reluctance to help Ukraine on an effective scale and the laziness associated with 
it, which only leads to an increase in the number of victims and villages leveled 
to the ground.

Unfortunately, NATO countries are the only hope for Ukraine to defend itself 
against Putin's barbarism and imperial appetites. And NATO really isn't the Quick 
Arrows, it's an association of good guys. If we want to show it with an example, 
then just point your finger on the globe where Turkey is. If Putin is repulsive 
with his fascistic ways and planned genocide of a neighboring nation, how about 
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan? Yes, quite similar. Even Turkey is such a 
proto-fascist dictatorship, where political opposition is liquidated, protests 
are almost forbidden, teachers are fired from universities, ultra-conservative 
ideology is promoted and courts are stripped of their independence. And even 
Erdogan's Turkey has its own genocidal plan for how to deal with a smaller, 
though still large, nation - the Kurds. And it implements this plan within its 
borders and beyond. Turkey also brought this fascist policy to the NATO 
negotiations on the expansion of Sweden and Finland, where it set conditions for 
these states - to enable the persecution of the Kurdish opposition on their 
territory. Bolstered by the concessions gained, Turkey can be expected to launch 
further attacks on the people of northern Syria to drive them from their homes 
and expand the zone under its military control.

Since the fight against terrorism is so often emphasized in NATO, Turkey also 
joined. But in a way that made black white. He describes the Kurdish fighters 
against the Islamic State (ISIS) as terrorists, and on the contrary, ISIS has 
long provided protection and material aid. So it is not surprising that when 
Maher al-Agal, the leader of ISIS in Syria, was killed on July 12, it was in the 
territory occupied by Turkey.

Yes, the invasion of Ukraine must be defeated. And yes, it probably won't be 
possible without the help of NATO countries. But let's keep in mind what this 
military alliance is and what its past is, especially regarding its own imperial 
forays. Let us beware of the hypocrisy that NATO embodies. Solidarity with the 
people of Ukraine must be as important to us as solidarity with the people of the 
Kurdish regions.

A3 (July 2022) can be downloaded HERE.
https://www.afed.cz/A3/A3-2022-07.pdf

https://www.afed.cz/text/7707/a3-o-cem-se-v-nato-mlci
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