NATO ALLY STATUS—A NOOSE AROUND INDIA’s NECK
In the last week of June, 2019,
the US Senate has adopted a
“National Authorisation Bill-2020”
which accords India the status of
Nato ally.” It would become a law
once both the Chambers of US
Congress pass it.
For a Country like India, which
is claimed as an independent,
sovereign and democratic country
the status of Nato ally is definitely
not a matter of pride. It is really
disastrous and shameful for our
Country and people.
Nato is a military alliance
headed by US imperialism. Its
members include the imperialist
powers as well as the Countries
subservient to imperialism. The
founding commitment of Nato calls
its members to view the attack on
one member Country as an attack
on all and act together against the
common enemy. The imperialists
justified the formation of Nato in
1949 on the plea that they needed
to defend themselves from the
imagined and fictitious threat posed
by the Socialist Soviet Union. But
the Nato had grown into a colossal
and monstrous edifice of imperialist
aggression. In the last seven
decades, there is no crime it had
not committed against humanity.
The US led Nato forces were used
to violate the rights of people and
countries. They resorted to armed
invasions and occupations in a
number of Countries in the name
of fighting terrorism, protecting
democracy and opposing the
alleged possession of WMDs. The
armed invasion and occupation of
Afghanistan and Iraq are only two
prominent instances of it in the last
two decades.
Dumping the aid, loans,
capital and goods in small
countries in the name of helping
their development; poking their
nose in the disputes between the
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countries in the name of helping
their resolution; complicating the
problems further, flaring up more
tensions, hostilities, wars and war
– like situations among them and
reaping super profits through arms
sale to the countries in conflict;
setting military bases in other
countries and roping the countries
in military alliances on the plea of
ensuring peace and security for
them are some of the well known
methods of imperialist powers in
general and US in particular to pull
the small and weak countries into
the path of most shameful
subjugation. India – a semi-feudal
and semi-colonial country ruled by
the comprador bourgeoisie and
landlord classes continues to be a
best hunting ground for the
imperialist powers to compete and
push through their policies of
plunder,
oppression
and
domination.
With the advent of the policies
of liberalization and globalization,
the imperialist powers, especially
the US had gone all out in their
drive to consolidate and further
strengthen their economic, political
and military hold on India. They
made use of every difficulty and
crisis in India, the dispute between
India and Pakistan to dump more
weapons in both Countries and
dictate more oppressive and
enslaving agreements to the Indian
ruling classes.
The UPA – 1 Govt. had signed
the “India – US Defense Frame
work Agreement” in 2005 only in this
wake. It took India – US military ties
to new heights. The BJP Govt. led
by Naendra Modi moved further
along the road laid down by the
Congress regime. “The Joint Vision
Statement for Asia-Pacific” signed
by the Indian PM Modi and US
President Obama in 2015; the US
according India the status of “Major
Defense Partner” in 2016; the
signing of “Logistics Exchange
Memorandum of Agreement”
(LEMOA) in 2016. And, again in
2018, the signing of COMCASA by
both countries have turned our
Country into virtual military ally of
US and placed the US in a dictating
position.
Thus the so called elevation
of India to the Nato ally status is
not a surprise move. It came as a
culmination of decades’ long series
of treacherous moves on the part
of Indian comprador ruling classes
and US and as their formalization.
These moves were taken behind
the back of Indian people, with no
consent of them. They are clearly
an outright betrayal of the interests
of our country and people. The
masses of Indian people, who
sacrificed the lives of millions of
their children in the freedom to
break the shackles of British
colonial rule and win a free,
democratic and sovereign India,
would never accept India again
being thrown back to a colonial
bondage and turned into an
appendage, ally and tool of
imperialism.
The BJP and Sangh Parivar
are parading themselves as the
custodian of nationalism and
arrogating themselves to punish
those who expose their fake
nationalism. The slogans of
Hindutva or Hind nationalism
chanted by them are nothing but
moves to divert and divide the
people and make their treacherous
prostration before the imperialist
powers. The Congress Party –
another ruling class party, which is
presently in the opposition – claims
to be in an irreconcilable
ideological battle with BJP and
Sangh-Parivar. It talks much about
upholding
democracy
and
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