Manlio Dinucci
Geographer and geopolitical scientist. His latest books are Laboratorio di geografia, Zanichelli 2014 ; Diario di viaggio, Zanichelli 2017 ; L’arte della guerra / Annali della strategia Usa/Nato 1990-2016, Zambon 2016. Guerra nucleare. Il giorno prima. Da Hiroshima a oggi: chi e come ci porta alla catastrofe, Zambon 2017; Diario di guerra. Escalation verso la catastrofe (2016 - 2018), Asterios Editores 2018.
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On 11 August 2017, the U.S. President, Donald Trump put on the table the option of taking military action against Venezuela. As Manlio Dinucci substantiates in this article, President Trump was not plucking words out of the air. The Mobility Guardian drill has just taken place in the United States, with the armies of 25 states participating and another 12 states observing. This was a repeat exercise for a prompt transport of forces of an enlarged Nato to the conflict zone.

Yes it’s a fact Jack: pure altruism motivates the United States to fund the deployment of its forces in Western Europe and Central Europe in order to protect Europe from a Russian invasion.
However this imminent danger is invalidated by History: Russian troops have never invaded Europe whereas the reverse operation has unfortunately been undertaken: first, by Emperor Napolean the First and then by the Fuhrer Adolf Hitler.
In actual fact, the exclusive aim of this exercise is to protect US soil. How so? By ejecting the potential theatre for confrontation from US soil and replanting it in Europe, potentially bearing fruit that might poison the people of Europe that the US is claiming to support.

Yesterday the Italian Defense Ministry’s satellite Optsat-3000 was launched in French Guyana, with a Vega rocket from the European Space Agency. What is interesting is that while the rocket was built in Italy (Avio), the actual satellite was made in Israel. The Italians purchased it in 2012, pursuant to a military cooperation agreement between Rome and Tel Aviv. Under this agreement, Alenia Aermacchi (the trading arm of Finmeccanica, now Leonardo) agreed to supply Israel 30 M-346 military (...)

“What is happening today in Libya is the nub of a destabilization programme holding a myriad of complexities”. So declared President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee, as he concluded an agreement that “paves the way for peace and national reconciliation”.
Macron’s message is that terrorist movements are the single cause for the chaos in which Libya now finds itself; terrorist movements that “exploit the political instability and the economic and financial resources that may exist in Libya to allow (...)

122 States have adopted a “Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons” which can be seen as supplementing and following on from the “Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty”. This new text clarifies how states are actually behaving: all the States who have signed the first Treaty are actually trashing it and have refused to sign the second.

While the European Union seems to be swamped with internal problems, the United States has launched a shake-up of Central Europe under the title, “The Three Seas Initiative”. This is a huge project, the brainchild of the Obama Administration and put in motion by the Trump Administration. The end-game? Creating an Anti-Russian bloc that will protect Western Europe.

Unstoppable! Nato pursues its anti-Russian provocations to provoke a reaction from Moscow that would account for its increase in resources. Of course this is no material change; nonetheless, it is still surprising to observe that this policy continues under the Trump administration.

At the beginning of the race to space, the Great Powers had agreed in the UN to refrain from storing weapons in space. However, without knowing whether or not it had violated this principle, the United States then deployed a range of weapons enabling it to destroy enemy satellites; in theory from Earth and not space.

Let us look at the hard facts: at the end of the Second World War, the US Secret Service and then the CIA saved Nazi officers to form the Nato stay-behind networks. In 2013, the Atlantic Alliance manoeuvred Neo-nazi groups to stage a revolution at Kiev. Today, Nato is publicly supporting the new Ukrainian institutions, institutions manned inter alia by Nazis – just take a look at President of the Ukrainian Parliament. So while the Atlantic Alliance ought to prevent any resurgence of Nazism, it is, in actual fact, organizing it.

On 15 June 2017, the United Nations will launch genuine negotiations striving to result in a prohibition on nuclear weapons. Until now, the Non Proliferation Treaty was a masquerade, the true and sole intention of which was to keep nuclear powers in a superior position to non-nuclear states. It is therefore not surprising that all nuclear powers, without exception, tried to oppose this initiative, which the UN General Assembly resolved in favour of.

Depending on your mental attitude, you will see the glass being half full or half empty. So Thierry Meyssan emphasizes what Donald Trump has achieved this week at the Nato and G7 summits, while Manlio Dinucci pauses to reflect upon Trump’s shortcomings – what he has failed to do. And so, a system is put in place – a system created not by laws debated and authorized by the Congress – but by the men encircling Trump. Men hell-bent on ensuring that Trump resists any change… enim sibi gerendum bellum est.

Donald Trump is trying to change his allies’ strategy: first by abandoning the goal of regime-change across an enlarged Middle East and second, by smashing their current tool, Islamic terrorism. However this approach is forcing him to make greater concessions. One of these is a mega deal, whereby the US will sell arms to Saudi Arabia. But what does this achieve? Not much other than increasing the likelihood of war.

Making mischief while confusion reigns…. Thus two US generals assure us that it was the Atomic Bomb that saved the world and preserved peace after the Second World War. From Korea in the 1950s to the Arab World in its current form, it will be for the victims of imperialism to evaluate this. But Truth’s narrative is quite different. What is Bomb has engineered is a situation where a few states maintain their domination over a world they are ready to blow up.

In preparation for President Trump’s visit to Europe (24 May: Rome; 25 May: the Nato Summit, Brussels; 26- 27 May: the G7 Summit at Taormina), the Pentagon presented its strategic plan for the “European theatre”. Its spokesperson? General Curtis Scaparrotti who, as the head of the US’s European Command, automatically becomes the head of Nato, holding the office of Supreme Allied Commander for Europe. On 2 May, in the US Senate, the General recalls that “the European theatre remains critical to (...)
The US F-35 Bomber: Now in Estonia and Bulgaria…
Lined up in bases, just a few minutes’ plane ride from Russiaby
Manlio Dinucci

On 25 April 2017, two US F-35 fighter planes arrived at the Ämari air base, Estonia, for their “first practice deployment in Europe”. This is code for their first war drill in Europe. Shortly afterwards, on 28 April, another two fighter planes arrived at the Graf Ignatievo airbase, Bulgaria for this same purpose. These planes form part of the group of six F-35A Lightning II that, on 15 April, were transferred from the United States to the English base situated in Lakenheath.
The U.S. Air (...)

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