Geopolitics
The Ankara Spectacle: NATO's Numbers Game and the Bankrupt Politics of Transatlantic Militarization
Ahead of the NATO summit, leadership will point to European progress on defense spending, industrial production, and aid to Ukraine as proof the burden is shifting. This desperate parade of statistics is merely a performance to appease a frustrated American imperial patron, revealing an alliance hollowed out by its own aggressive posturing and a fundamental disconnect from the sovereignty and developmental priorities of the Global South.