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Date(s) - Friday - Jul 3, 2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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NATO in crisis: time to overcome the war machine
NATO Peace Counter Summits – Online
As NATO faces its deepest ever crisis, this counter-summit will focus on the impact of the dramatically changing global situation, and the opportunities this presents for change. The decades-long ideological and political relationship between Europe and the USA is changing beyond all recognition. The US pursues brutal unilateral dominance with vassal status for Europe. Europe pursues greater independence based on insane levels of militarism to the point of risking a nuclear war. The situation is unsustainable and dangerous in the extreme.
This new situation presents the peace movement with new challenges and new opportunities. Can NATO be dealt a death blow? What will come in its place? Can we overcome the warmongering ideology that is increasingly dominating our societies? How can we build an alternative security framework that meets people’s needs and guarantees real security for all?
This ‘No to War – No to NATO network’ counter-summit will explore these questions, develop an analysis of NATO in the rapidly changing situation, and look at the implications for our movements. Please join us.
Pre-Summit Session
- July 3, 2025 | 7pm – 9pm CEST | Online
- Registration: https://bit.ly/overcomethewarmachine-pre-summit
Part 1: US global strategy – what it means for NATO
Opening and welcome by the No to NATO Network and greetings from our Turkish Partners with update on their events
- NN Turkish speaker
- US global strategy under Trump: back to universal hegemony? Is war a ‘way out’ for capitalism’s multi-crisis? Anu Chenoy
- The new US-Europe relationship: subordination or emancipation? Europe’s crisis, the new militarism and new imperialism and opportunities for a new peace architecture. Reiner Braun
Moderator: Kristine Karch
Part 2: The new international situation: how the elites are reacting
How far will European ‘leaders’ go with rearmament and the militarisation of our societies, our industry, our education systems? What political and economic reorganisation will they pursue? What will result from their ‘war-readiness ideology’ and their construction of China and Russia as enemy stereotypes?
Speakers: Michael von der Schulenburg (MEP), Laetitia Planche (France), NN Spain invited, Oleg Bodrow (Russia)
Moderator: Kate Hudson (Great Britain)