Since Washington’s putsch in Kiev – and Moscow’s inevitable response in Russian Crimea, to protect its Black Sea Fleet – the provocation and isolation of Russia have been inverted in the news to the ‘Russian threat’. This is fossilised propaganda. The US Air Force general who runs Nato forces in Europe – General Breedlove, no less – claimed more than two weeks ago to have pictures showing 40,000 Russian troops ‘massing’ on the border with Ukraine. So did Colin Powell claim to have pictures of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. What is certain is that Obama’s rapacious, reckless coup in Ukraine has ignited a civil war and Vladimir Putin is being lured into a trap. John Pilger, The Strangelove Effect, Or How We Are Hoodwinked Into Accepting a New World War
I dared to say that Nato was the greatest threat to peace on the planet … That is enough to get you labelled as Russian propaganda. The Corbett Report: The Neo-Neocons and Cold War 2.0, interview Vin Armani Show, James Corbett online
Operation Gladio was a Nato plan to use stay-behind paramilitary armies to counter a potential Soviet invasion of Europe. The Corbett Report: Gladio B and the Battle for Eurasia, James Corbett online
I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn’t. Jeremy Corbyn
This changed when in July 1940 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the creation of a secret army under the label SOE to ‘set Europe ablaze by assisting resistance movements and carrying out subversive operations in enemy held territory’. SOE was placed under the command of the Labour Ministry of Economic Warfare under Hugh Dalton … SOE was a carbon copy of Operation Gladio born in the midst of the Second World War. Daniele Ganser, Nato’s Secret Armies
Operation Mainbrace, Western Europe, 14-25 September 1952 NATO training exercise … ‘A whole series of sightings of flying saucers’ … the sightings were to produce a radical change in the Ministry of Defence’s attitude to unidentified flying objects. UFOs: The Untold Stories s1e4, National Geographic 2012
This is the story of the secret armies funded by the United States, trained by Britain, and left behind in post-war Europe to fight the rise of communism. This is also the story of how they turned against their own people. Nato’s Secret Armies, Military Channel 2009
Milan, 12th December 1969, a bomb exploded … 17 people were killed and 80 seriously wounded … Munich 26th September 1980: killed 13 people and injured over 200 … Brussels 9th November 1985 a gang of men opened fire … ‘8 killed and 8 injured’ … one of a staggering 16 similar attacks carried out between 1982 and ’85 that came to be known as the Brabant massacres. ibid.
Over a period of about 15 years Europe was rocked by a series of terror attacks; the lives of thousands of people were turned upside down. ibid.
Documents that connected this mysterious force to Nato … The secret orgnisation Gladio existed … part of a much wider network of secret stay-behind armies coordinated by Nato throughout Western Europe during the Cold War. ibid.
After the Second World War, Britain and the US established a secret network of stay-behind armies in over 15 European countries including neutral Switzerland and Austria … Gladio foot-soldiers were recruited from a variety of sources. ibid.
Western Europe possessed each a particular branch but to these cells are discovered suspicions of terrorist activities, of fascist ideology. Retour aux Sources: Gladio, RTBF 2014
During the Cold War thousands of sleeping agents were ready to enter into action in case the Red Army would have occupied Western Europe. ibid.
Belgium too has known in the ’80s a wave of terror through a series of heists of extreme violence that caused 28 deaths between 1983 to 1985. ibid.
Stay behind networks are independent but interconnected … They are in radio contact. ibid.
As membership spreads eastwards, Nato troops and equipment are building up uncomfortably close to Russia’s border. Secret Wars Uncovered s1e1: Coup in Crimea, Sky History 2020
Trump called the other Nato members deadbeats who owed their freedom to America. Then he said that if they didn’t pay up, the US would go its own way. Trump Takes on the World I, BBC 2021
Many believe that the CIA continued to meddle in Italian elections for decades, making sure Italy was always governed by a right of centre government. But some historians claim that wasn’t the end of interference in Italian politics. They claim that after three decades of anti-communist parties in Italy, the US along with Nato went far further, brutally murdering Italy’s popular prime minister Aldo Moro. Conspiracy s1e6: The Cold War Files, Channel 5 2015
War on the streets of Europe. People living in fear. The Ukrainians are fighting back. There are questions about Vladimir Putin’s state of mind. What he does next could change the fate of millions. Panorama: Putin’s War in Ukraine, BBC 2022
Putin feared Ukraine, Russia’s nearest neighbour, would join Nato and demanded that it never should. ibid.
He [Putin] declared two pro-Russian areas in eastern Ukraine independent states. The west imposed economic sanctions. ibid.
Nato has expanded into 13 countries to the borders of Russia. Ukraine on Fire, Oliver Stone, 2022
‘As soon as the country becomes a member of Nato, it can’t resist the pressure of the USA.’ ibid. Putin