All NATO leaders should be prosecuted for war crimes and inciting crimes against peace.
Israel’s years-long covert aggression against Iran has now escalated into open war following a massive wave of air strikes overnight in which several Iranian cities, including the capital, Tehran, were targeted with hundreds of missiles and drones.
Several of Iran’s top military commanders have been killed, as well as dozens of civilians, according to Iranian media.
Tel Aviv is warning that the attacks will continue for weeks. U.S. President Donald Trump has gloated about “excellent” strikes and warned of more to come, although he also claimed that he advised Israel against taking military action.
The U.S. claims it did not participate but did give “exquisite” intelligence for the attack. Meanwhile, NATO is believed to have provided military support to thwart Iranian retaliatory strikes while the organization’s civilian leader, Mark Rutte, deceptively appealed for a “de-escalation”.
The Iranian leadership is vowing a painful retaliation in the coming days for Israel’s “declaration of war”. The situation is spiraling into an all-out war in the Middle East, the dimensions of which are potentially devastating for the region and indeed the entire world.
But let’s be clear.
This conflict is an unprovoked aggression by Israel and a gross violation of the UN Charter and international law. Israeli claims about “preemptive” strikes against alleged nuclear facilities are null and void.
Moreover, the United States and its NATO military alliance have fully enabled the supreme criminal act of aggression.
Under the UN Charter, Iran has the legal right to retaliate in self-defense.
U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders of NATO were informed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hours before the air strikes were launched. That means tacit consent, at the very least.
However, the involvement of the U.S. and NATO is much more sinister and far-reaching. Israel is not acting “unilaterally” as is claimed. The U.S. and its NATO allies are aiding and abetting the aggression.
Hours after the deadly strikes on Iran, Trump was bragging that Israel has the best American military equipment in the world. He cited the “death and destruction” with gangster-like blackmail, threatening Iran to sign a phony nuclear deal or face obliteration. “Iran must do a deal before there is nothing left,” he said.
Israel is a proxy for the United States and NATO against Iran in the same way that Ukraine is being used against Russia, and no doubt, some suitable proxy will be found for a near-future conflict with China.
The operation to attack Iran has the hallmarks of U.S. and NATO participation. It bears a close resemblance to the Ukrainian attack on Russia’s military airbases only two weeks ago.
Israel has claimed that it infiltrated Iranian territory with multiple drone launchers to carry out the strikes on pinpointed targets across the country. The planning and execution are a replica of Ukraine’s “Operation Spiderweb” on Russia, carried out on June 1.
Both attacks inevitably mean that the United States and NATO special forces were involved. Ukraine and Israel have been closely cooperating militarily. A common linkage is NATO’s military intelligence, primarily the CIA and Britain’s MI6.
The implications are enormous and grave. The U.S.-led NATO proxy war against Russia has opened up a second front against Iran. Russia and Iran signed a strategic defense pact last year. The potential repercussions are an all-out world war.
The broader dimensions were brazenly articulated by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Speaking at a Chatham House forum in London this week, Rutte accused Russia of preparing to attack NATO nations within five years.
With unhinged warmongering, the former Dutch premier warned that if Britain and other NATO members do not step up further militarization, they will have to “learn the Russian language” – meaning they will be conquered.
Rutte told his audience: “Russia has teamed up with China, North Korea, and Iran… Putin’s war machine is speeding up.”
He added: “Let’s not kid ourselves, we are all on the Eastern flank now. The new generation of Russian missiles travels at many times the speed of sound. The distance between European capitals is only a matter of minutes. There is no longer East or West – there is just NATO.”
This Dutch shill for war and the military-industrial complex is all but saying that NATO is on a global war footing.
Let’s indulge for a moment in NATO propaganda to highlight its utter depravity and hypocrisy.
The transatlantic alliance claims to be the world’s most successful military and security organization. This week, in yet another sickening war crime, the Israeli regime murdered starving children with sniper fire as they were desperately seeking food rations.
The genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and other Occupied Territories has been going on relentlessly for nearly 20 months, aided and abetted with weapons and political and diplomatic support from Washington and NATO allies.
Yet, the Dutch shill has the gall to warn the world that Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are the most serious threats. This man is a shameless liar and a gaslighting operative.
Rutte’s purpose in life is as flagrant as it is pathetic. He is nothing but a psychopathic warmonger who has no morals or soul. His lies are told in public with a straight face in a grotesque charade to pump economic resources into the coffers of military corporations.
The murder of children has no relevance to him. Peace and security have no relevance to him, except that real peace and security would put shills like him out of business and purpose in life.
NATO is having a major summit in two weeks on June 23-24. There will be no condemnations of Israeli genocide and aggression.
Pathetic puppets like Rutte will demand more military spending in NATO nations beyond their already obscene levels at the expense of democratic civilian needs. Rutte calls for more weapons to support the NeoNazi corrupt regime in Kiev to prolong the profits for the military capitalist war machine.
Rutte’s job is to make a fascist organization and its terrorist proxies look respectable and acceptable.
Meanwhile, Trump talks about wanting peace in Ukraine with Russia. Trump talks a lot of nonsense, too, about not wanting nuclear war. He has also made veiled threats against Russia if it does not accept a peace deal with Ukraine in the way he wants.
This seems to be Trump’s modus operandi, as can be seen now most graphically with Iran. Do a deal my way, or face violent consequences.
The United States and NATO – its international vehicle for legalized imperialist violence – have weaponized Ukraine and Israel. The U.S.-led axis will do the same against China and North Korea and any other nation it targets for getting in its way of desired global domination.
Lamentably, the world is on the cusp of catastrophic war. This is not unprecedented. Many NATO criminal wars and covert operations have led up to this historical point and are coalescing into an all-out war on the world.
All NATO leaders should be prosecuted for war crimes and inciting crimes against peace. Certainly, one of the most odious and insidious of these criminals is Mark Rutte.
By SCF Editorial
Published by SCF
Republished by The 21st Century
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