"Theres going to be a crisis which will come along on the 21st, 22nd of January which we don't even know about right now."@ 2:38 min
The controversial NATO sponsored report entitled “Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing Transatlantic Partnership". calls for a first strike use of nuclear weapons. The preemptive use of nukes would also be used to undermine an "increasingly brutal World" as a means to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction:"They [the authors of the report] consider that nuclear war might soon become possible in an increasingly brutal world. They propose the first use of nuclear weapons must remain "in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction". (Paul Dibb, Sidney Morning Herald, 11 February 2008)
The group, insists that the option of first strike of nuclear weapons is "indispensable, since there is simply no realistic prospect of a nuclear-free world." (Report, p. 97, emphasis added):
Nuclear weapons are the ultimate instrument of an asymmetric response – and at the same time the ultimate tool of escalation. Yet they are also more than an instrument, since they transform the nature of any conflict and widen its scope from the regional to the global. ...
...Nuclear weapons remain indispensable, and nuclear escalation continues to remain an element of any modern strategy.Nuclear escalation is the ultimate step in responding asymmetrically, and at the same time the most powerful way of inducing uncertainty in an opponent’s mind. (Ibid, emphasis added)
The Group's Report identifies six key "challenges", which may often result as potential threats to global security:
Het voortbestaan van de NAVO loopt gevaar als een aantal leden van het bondgenootschap zich onttrekt aan de verplichtingen bij de missie in Afghanistan."De Navo dient zo snel mogelijk te worden opgeheven. Nederland doet er goed aan om het voorbeeld te geven en uit de Navo te stappen." (Uit het SP beginselprogramma.)
