Well, he can’t possibly do a worse job of it than the previous one, so I guess I’m happy that he got elected. So who is he? His name is Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and he’s the current Prime Minister in Denmark, for the political party Venstre (grouped as liberals in a biparisan system), so at least he’s on the right side of the spectrum. The fact remains that NATO should not even exist anymore, but maybe it can make a turn for the better once there’s some good scandinavian blood in charge.
So you’re probably wondering what my grudge is with NATO, right? Today is its 60th birthday, so of course Red Youth was out protesting. Personally they haven’t done anything to me besides indirectly causing that I had to lay on a cold floor and play dead for a while with fake blood all over me, as seen here.
But there are problems with NATO. In the beginning NATO started out as a rather clever defense mechanism that kept the Sovjet Union at bay. A direct consequence of the opening scenes of the cold war, it gained its foothold, and while the Sovjet Union fell, NATO remained tall and proud, but without a purpose. Then USA started looking for countries to pick on, and NATO was all in from the start, and of course this had been going on since before the fall of Sovjet too. Lebanon, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, they all have NATO all over them. And soon Obama will go after Pakistan, just you wait, it’s in the budget. When this happens, Rasmussen will have no real choice but to follow. That is if Obama will even wait until August, which is when Rasmussen will officially become the Secretary General.
NATO is the aggressor these days. It is an obsolete organization whose only means of surviving are war. As long as it can pretend to still be needed, it remains, in a world where the United Nations has long since taken over as the peace-preserving part.
You can read more about Rasmussen and the NATO birthday here and here.
Song of the Blog: Blood
Sincerely
Bjørn
