The world calls for peace and food, NATO for more weapons and military bases.
Between January and May 2022 alone, the United States has committed more than $40 billion in support to Ukraine in the context of the war, and the European Union more than 27 billion euros; however, to address the current food crisis, the West has contributed just $5 billion to UN efforts
Author: Francisco Arias Fernández | informacion@granmai.cu
july 13, 2022 10:07:27
While the world needs and asks for peace, demands food, fuel and fertilizer at lower prices, the drums of war redouble.
Photo: Taken from pressenza.com
Recently, the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, warned that the world is going through an “unprecedented global hunger crisis,” affecting hundreds of millions of people; a catastrophe caused by food shortages resulting from the impacts of climate change, the years of the coronavirus pandemic, inequality, poverty, the world crisis, the war in Ukraine and sanctions policies.
He stressed out that no country will be immune to its social and economic repercussions, while predicting that this situation will lead to several famines being declared in 2022, and that 2023 could be even worse.
Guterres has insisted on UN efforts for peace in Ukraine and to unblock the export of food and fertilizers from the conflict countries, one of the main causes of the uncontrollable food and fuel price soaring, which has deepened the current crisis.
The senior official called for debt relief for poor countries to help them get their economies afloat, and for the private sector to help stabilize food markets.
Likewise, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) revealed in its recent Food Outlook report that the global cost of food imports will increase by $51 billion as compared to 2021, and that it is worrying that many vulnerable countries are paying more but receiving less food.
While there are growing calls for peace, to mitigate Third World debts; to create UN financial funds to face the critical moment; to stop the war in Ukraine, as it is an open source of instability in Europe; to assume responsible policies against climate change and to face global migratory instability, the West only responds with threats and more confrontation, with ridiculous contributions to the solution of such challenges and betting everything on war.
Every statement of the government of the United States, its closest allies and NATO, overflows with arrogance, interference and the irresponsibility of stirring up the conflict in Kiev even more, and unveiling a veiled declaration of hostility, without much diplomacy, against Moscow and Beijing.
This hegemonic, imperial, pro-American and confrontational purpose was made clear at the opening of the NATO Summit in Madrid by its Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who openly lashed out against Russia and China from his opening remarks, singling out both powers, in offensive terms, as the enemies of the present: authoritarian regimes that openly defy the international order.
Rather than a Summit to fix the problems that threaten humanity, its projections are for more weapons, a multi-million-dollar military aid for Ukraine, increased NATO siege against Moscow, increased spending and investment in the war industry, new military bases of the United States in Europe, more intelligence coordination than humanitarian aid to stop migratory flows from the “southern flank” (new denomination); of more fear to justify new concerted sanctions against Russians and Chinese, with an arrogant discourse of cold war in times of nuclear risks, when the American and British leaders persist in showing their teeth.
Between January and May of this year alone, the U.S. has committed more than $40 billion in support to Ukraine in the context of the war, while the European Union and its banks have contributed more than 27 billion euros, according to figures from Germany’s Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
To deal with the current food crisis, the West has contributed no more than $5 billion to UN efforts.
As if that were not enough, the first announcements of the delegation headed by Biden at the Madrid Summit were that it will strengthen its military presence in Poland, Romania, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany, as well as in the Baltic region. He also informed that rotating deployments with armor, aviation, air defense and special operations forces in the Baltic will be “increased”.
While the world needs and demands peace, demands food, fuel and fertilizer prices at lower prices, the drums of war are beating under the leadership of Joseph Biden, Stoltenberg and the British Prime Minister, who are taking advantage of the serious crisis they fomented with the war in Ukraine to further consolidate the expansionism of NATO and Washington’s geostrategic interests.
Against the odds of hunger, death or the Third and last World War (of nuclear extermination), the White House and the West persist in preventing peace in spite of the high number of victims, expenses, impacts or crises provoked on the planet, already stunned by pandemics, droughts, famines, uncontrolled migrations and other wars of pillage or plunder, at the Pentagon’s expense.
Although some American and European commentators crudely describe the potential dangers of the warmongering attitude of Biden and his allies, they do not hide the weight that the interests of the Democratic Party group, which is focused on preventing the return of Trump and the Republicans, have in everything that is happening, and they need a high-voltage conflict of great tension to help them position themselves in the “patriotic” current that will allow them to win the mid-term elections next November.
Regarding the results of the Madrid Summit, a Spanish commentator bluntly referred:
“NATO, which had been diagnosed as “brain dead” by President Macron, has received a miraculous expansionist boost (…) Whether such expansion offers more security is written in the stars, even if they are the stars of the American flag, since American governments have always operated according to their own designs or interests, unilaterally, as we have seen in Afghanistan and in other conflicts.”
