Montenegro and the NATO

The members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) bombed the Former Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), of which Montenegro was part of back then, without the agreement of the United Nations’ (UN) Security Council in 1999. Afterwards freedom, democracy and all other Western values fell from the sky onto “the primitive and barbaric’’ soil of Montenegro. Those values had planted a root deep inside the Montenegrin society, so that appropriate conditions emergde for the country to become itself the member of the alliance. However, something is wrong with this fairy tail.

No need for a controversial alliance

The NATO’s founding document contains that the alliance has to defend the democratic achievements with its great arsenal wherever it is necessary. The ruling elite, making constant efforts to persuade the public that the place of our country is within the alliance, expresses that in their own humble opinion joining NATO will grant Montenegro national security, economic growth and the inflow of foreign capital. These claims are unfortunately far from reality.

Why would we fear for our national security when the government claims that we have friendly relations with the surrounding countries and also with more distant states? Albania and Croatia, both members of the alliance, were the only close historical foes of Montenegro, yet we never had any problems with other neighboring countries. Montenegrins are also confused because they believe that NATO will protect them from the terrorist attacks, but they have in fact witnessed the devastating attacks on New York, Madrid and London.

Joining the alliance would mean that Montenegro will send its soldiers to various types of missions, even though they seriously lack modern equipment and logistic support. And all that in order to support dubious military actions. Let's tell the truth: the NATO has already invaded sovereign states like Libya, Iraq and Yugoslavia without any hesitation. This must be seen as a dire imperialist attack on the free and recognized countries to achieve the goals of Western countries, foremost the Anglo-Saxon ones. The leading powers of NATO have a special approach to international law: sometimes they like to refer to its values and written laws while in other cases they completely ignore them. The setting up of democratic institutions and the protection of human rights is only their decoy for interventions.

Economic non-sense

One of the most important reasons mentioned as a pro for joining NATO is the huge economic gain which would be made when the Montenegrin companies get the chance to sell their products in foreign markets. However, existing manufacturing capacities cannot produce more weapons and other gear for NATO forces. Furthermore, the accession itself will not change a thing regarding the foreign money flows for investments where the law is clear on certain issues. Montenegro does not have a stable economy today and the solution to that cannot come from NATO. Furthermore, despite the long time lobbying of the government as well as of some non-profit organizations, only 30% of the population supports the accession. In fact, the citizens had not forgotten the unnecessary aggression, the civilian victims and the hostile attitude of the Western powers towards people who are historically close to Russia.

The debate is redundant although the majority has clearly expressed their will, which did not change despite pressure from official circles. We need to say yet again and as clearly as possible the simple word: "no". We would never join from our free will the organization of NATO.