Yesterday's rally against the Trump administration in Washington, D.C., a vast and confused hodgepodge of liberal groups, snuck in one notable "progressive" demand: that Trump take his hands off NATO.
Since its founding, NATO has served as a belligerent enforcer of Western hegemony, one which fuels militarization, enforces neocolonial domination, and provokes global conflicts—from Yugoslavia to Ukraine—while serving arms dealers and empire.
Its post-Cold War expansion encircled Russia, violating past promises, and its illegal wars under "humanitarian" pretenses have devastated nations like Libya and Afghanistan.
Even if he wanted to, the figurehead Donald Trump would never be allowed to put his hands on NATO.
I also have to wonder, because this otherwise seems like a pretty ok protest, who snuck in the "NATO" part here, since in some other posters for this event it was actually not included:
Luciky the Palestine rally at the same time was seperate from this one, and more anti-NATO
And the media is entirely ignoring the Palestine rally and focusing on the "hands off" rally instead. Really curious that one of the points that the Palestine rally made was that the media is complicit in this genocide.
Palestine rally was also much bigger and organized
PSL and the PYM have been doing great work at organizing.