A War-Making Machine’: Why NATO Should Be Abolished w/ Vijay Prashad

Last week, the two war-mongering factions in the US argued over the future of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, as a tool for maintaining US global hegemony. Trump touted at a campaign rally that when he was president he told an unidentified NATO leader that he would encourage Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” with member countries that were “delinquent.” The comments provoked a firestorm, with a range of Western officials, including Biden, rushing to denounce the remarks while reaffirming their unwavering loyalty to the imperialist alliance. Vijay Prashad, the Executive Director of the Tricontinental Institute, joins the show to expose how the Democrats’ Pro-NATO position and Trump’s “America First” foreign policy, which calls for the US to pull out of NATO, are merely two sides of the same imperialist coin. Prashad explains why abolishing NATO is an urgent necessity to save the global population from more destructive wars.