A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova: The Chain of Death. NATO Summit (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

"We will make NATO even greater. Today, all of us allies have laid the 
foundations to make NATO stronger, more equitable, and more lethal." At 
the conclusion of the Atlantic Alliance summit held in The Hague on June 
24 and 25, Secretary General Mark Rutte emphasized the results of what 
many analysts (see in particular Gianandrea Gaiani, editor of Analisi 
Difesa) saw as a chicken coop theater, with a "peacock master"-Donald 
Trump-and countless "adoring chickens," the heads of state of the other 
31 member states.

"The United States today appears no longer as a great ally but as the 
true master, which, in addition to spying on Europeans like a big 
brother, also demands devotion, blind obedience, and glorification of 
its own deeds and those of its leader," writes Gaiani. At the Hague 
Summit, NATO is effectively dead as an alliance, even though it survives 
as a sort of feudal empire in which the sovereign seeks and obtains 
subservience and adulation from his submissive vassals.

At the summit, the US president presented himself as the peace-making 
knight of the Apocalypse after imposing an armed truce between Israel 
and Iran with the sound of super-bombs. He reminded his European 
"vassals" that there is no NATO without Washington's overwhelming 
military-nuclear power, and if the allies still want US-made armed 
forces on the borders with Russia and Belarus, they will have to use the 
European Union as a cash machine to finance the reconversion of the 
economy and industrial production to military purposes. Above all, they 
will have to buy US-made weapons and munitions and support the insane 
race for space and nuclear rearmament and Washington's unbridled 
ambitions for power in the Indo-Pacific.

To hold on to the much-admired "peacock," NATO partners have agreed to 
undergo the greatest economic, financial, and social shock in post-World 
War II history: allocating 5% of GDP to military spending within ten 
years, focusing specifically on the development and production of 
increasingly sophisticated warfare technologies, aerospace and satellite 
systems, drones, tanks, and conventional and nuclear munitions. This 
hemorrhage of public money will benefit transnational financial capital, 
destroying welfare, education, public healthcare, and social services 
across the continent. "In the White House's assessment, the 5% defense 
target has financial and commercial value: European allies should 
purchase US weapons to rebalance the trade balance between the two sides 
of the Atlantic and avoid the US tariffs that Trump himself threatens to 
impose on all allies on a daily basis," Gianandrea Gaiani notes.

For the most reluctant allies, Mark Rutte has devised an accounting 
trick that barely changes the dire future of EU-NATO countries: the 5% 
of GDP will be reached by adding the 3.5% share to be covered by state 
budgets for weapons and troops, with 1.5% for "national security 
spending": cybersecurity, protection of critical infrastructure (power 
plants and telecommunications networks), border defense, military police 
equipment and personnel, medical facilities against nuclear, chemical, 
and biological attacks, conversion of logistics and transportation 
infrastructure (railways, highways, bridges, ports, and airports) to 
military use, research and innovation in the defense industry, etc.

"Our investments will ensure the availability of the necessary forces, 
capabilities, resources, infrastructure, operational readiness, and 
resilience, in line with our three core tasks: deterrence and defense, 
crisis prevention and management, and cooperative security," reads the 
final resolution approved at the NATO summit. We reaffirm our shared 
commitment to rapidly expand transatlantic defense cooperation and to 
harness emerging technologies and the spirit of innovation to advance 
our collective security. We will work to eliminate defense trade 
barriers among Allies and leverage our partnerships to foster cooperation.

After launching the DIANA - Defense Innovation Accelerator program to 
"accelerate dual-use innovation in new technologies" (millions of 
dollars for research and development centers across the country; in 
Italy, in Turin, La Spezia, and Capua), NATO launched a Rapid Adoption 
Action Plan to "strengthen and accelerate" the adoption and integration 
of new military technology products. "The Allies commit to accelerating 
adoption procedures, including accelerated procurement, and to 
allocating adequate resources to this end," reads the final resolution 
of the 2025 Summit. "The Allies will embrace greater acquisition risks 
in the early stages of development and improve the communication of 
demand signals within NATO. The Military Production Action Plan responds 
to the need to produce more and more quickly."

Among the most significant developments, especially in terms of 
resources and "investments," is the approval in The Hague of the first 
Commercial Space Strategy. The strategy aims to enable NATO countries to 
"integrate more flexible and timely commercial solutions, both in 
peacetime and conflict," offering greater "business opportunities" to 
companies operating in the aerospace sector and increasingly closer 
coordination with the Alliance.

NATO's business pro-private capital approach, emerging from the June 
summit in the Netherlands, has given rise to several multinational, 
multi-million-dollar projects. Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, 
Greece, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, 
Turkey, and Italy have commissioned the acquisition, storage, 
transportation, and management of "essential defense raw materials" 
(particularly lithium, titanium, and other rare earth minerals), which 
are highly sought after by industries in the supply chain of death. With 
the High Visibility Project-the name of the strategic minerals stockpile 
program-NATO aims to "reduce demand vulnerability as well as supplier 
dependence."

New impetus has also been given to the program to strengthen the NATO 
Multi-Role Tanker Transport Fleet (MMF). The NATO Support and 
Procurement Agency (NSPA) has signed a contract with the German giant 
Airbus Defence and Space for the supply of two additional A330 tankers, 
adding to the twelve already in operation with the allied fleet. 
Launched in 2012, the MMF program enjoys financial support from the 
European Union. One of its main operational hubs is being built at the 
Sigonella Naval Air Station, the largest US and NATO base in the central 
Mediterranean. At the Sicilian installation, runway expansion is 
underway to accommodate the landing of large tanker aircraft from the US 
Air Force and Alliance partners, following the acquisition of 
approximately 100 hectares of land designated for agricultural use.

Further serious consequences in terms of territorial militarization will 
be generated by another major project under the Rapid Adoption Action 
Plan, the NATO Innovation Ranges. Specifically, Estonia, Finland, 
Latvia, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Italy will create a large number of 
"ranges" for the testing and integration of new advanced military 
systems. "This is a key intervention aimed at accelerating the 
innovative adoption and launch of new technologies and increasing 
production capacity through the inclusion of non-traditional suppliers 
in the defense industrial base," NATO leaders explain. "These testing 
grounds will allow Allied partners to test, refine, and validate 
technological products in operationally realistic environments."

Although "apostle of peace" Trump arrived in The Hague with an olive 
branch regarding Washington's future relations with Russian President 
Putin, the NATO summit's final document reaffirms absolute hostility to 
Russia and full military and political support for Ukraine. "United in 
the face of profound security threats and challenges, particularly the 
long-term threat posed by Russia to Euro-Atlantic security and the 
persistent threat of terrorism (...), the Allies reaffirm their 
sovereign and enduring commitment to provide support to Ukraine, whose 
security contributes to our own," the 32 NATO leaders agreed.

Secretary General Rutte's words were even more bellicose. "Russia is a 
short- and long-term threat to the Alliance, and our intelligence 
suggests it could be ready to attack NATO within the next three to seven 
years; the threat from Russia is clear, and we must be able to defend 
ourselves," he warned at the opening of the summit. European NATO 
countries will shoulder even more of Ukraine's war expenses. During the 
first half of 2025, "military aid" worth EUR35 billion was sent to the 
government in Kiev, but Mark Rutte reiterated his intention to exceed 
EUR50 billion by the end of the year.

The Italian government presented itself more united than ever before at 
Mr. Trump's court. Before departing for the Netherlands, Prime Minister 
Giorgia Meloni expressed in Parliament her full support and devotion to 
the blood, sweat, and tears program of 5% of GDP per year for war 
spending. The Milex Observatory on Military Spending has attempted to 
quantify the amount of financial resources that will be diverted from 
the state budget to fuel the weapons systems market. The 3.5% cash 
target alone will entail spending of no less than EUR700 billion over 
the next ten years, approximately EUR220 billion more than would be 
spent over the same period with a 2% GDP target. If the full 5% target 
were met, EUR964 billion would be spent over the next ten years, or 
EUR445 billion more than the 2% target, with an average annual 
additional resources of EUR44 billion. The many "external" wars that 
Italy is engaged in would thus be compounded by a full-blown "internal 
war" against the most disadvantaged social classes.

Antonio Mazzeo

https://umanitanova.org/la-filiera-della-morte-vertice-nato/
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