Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

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 In our world today, it is more than high time we start sorting out the mess the end of the Cold War produced.

 The US used an Atom Bomb in Japan in 1945 to quicken the surrender and submission of Japan into defeat and occupation by the USA.

 As a preventive measure, NATO was created by 12 countries from Europe and North America on  April 4, 1949. Since then, it has been expanding though they had to wait for the fall of The Iron Curtain to integrate most other European countries.19 more countries have joined NATO through nine rounds of enlargement (in 1952, 1955, 1982, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2017, 2020 and 2023). Finland is the last one which joined in 2023. Sweden is pending. Ukraine is not yet programmed, Nor is Georgia.

 Article 10 of the North Atlantic Treaty sets out how countries can join the Alliance. It states that membership is open to any "European State in a position to further the principles of this Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area." We can note that Biden’s idea that it should be open to Asian countries to counter China is not in the treaty. We cannot see how Taiwan could be concerned, or Japan and South Korea, when Australia and New Zealand are not even close to jumping into this North Atlantic Boat.

 is taken by the North Atlantic Council, NATO's principal political decision-making body, based on consensus among all Allies.

 The Cold War became a nuclear-deterring strategy in the world when the Soviets successfully tested their first nuclear device, called RDS-1 or “First Lightning” at Semipalatinsk on August 29, 1949.

 France has always been a free player in that game. “France is determined to regain on her whole territory the full exercise of her sovereignty,” wrote French President Charles de Gaulle on March 7, 1966, after his reelection on  December 5, 1965, with a second round on  December 19. They were the first direct presidential elections in the Fifth Republic and the first since the Second Republic on December 10 and 11, 1848, electing the first and only president of the Second Republic. The election led to the victory of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte with 74% of the popular vote. He became Emperor Napoleon III after a coup d’état on December 2, 1951.

With De Gaulle’s decision, the country intended to stop putting its military forces at NATO’s disposal and intended to kick NATO military forces—and those of NATO members, first of all of the USA—off of its land.

In short, de Gaulle had just done the unthinkable: pulled the plug on a crucial part of NATO. We remember how President Jacques Chirac vetoed the UN resolution to launch the war in Iraq in 2003.

 The Parisian NATO headquarters has become Paris University Dauphine. I taught there for about four years.

The new cold war is the only way the USA has to counter the change of power in the world where the West is a minority of countries, a minority of the population, and a minority of Global GDP, and this backward movement is still amplifying the weight of the Rest.

 Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023

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