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NATO was created as a mechanism for the domination of Europe by US Imperialists.
The EU was a development of the globalist class of capitalist who wish to create stable transnational institutions that would be completely free from any interferences from any potential working class uprising in any one country.
The strange coalition of nationalist petty bourgeois , workers and even bourgeois have combined to deliver a powerful blow against this effort. An effort ironically supported by many on the pseudo left. Thus the rise of Trump, Brexit and of the rest of the right wing trash.
This war between the Nationalists and transnationalists continues, especially in the the US as the secret police controlled by the transnationalist vie with the military controlled by the nationalists for complete power. Both of which are controlled by respective opposing capitalist wings of the overall capitalist class.
The more conservative Nationalists don't trust the effectiveness of the transnational system of World domination. In a sense this a continuation of the battles surrounding the JFK assassination. Where the representative of the transnationalist lost his life for being to aggressive in imposing the new system.
Trump's friendliness with fellow nationalist Putin has to be seen in this light. Note that both Trump and Putin are mere representatives of far more powerful capitalist in both countries. We should not fetishized these respective political whores.
All politics must be described in their underlying class forces not the fetishes that are thrown into our eyes like so much dust, to confuse us. Most countries on the planet have no importance. Even the US has importance only with respect to the new mode of production which fighting to come to existence and the older which is fighting to maintain its form of production.
Imperialism is already moving past the nationalist mode of production and repression into transnational forms. The Working class because of Stalinist betrayals of the principles of Internationals remains mired of Socialism of of the fatherland. This is true of even Trotskyist parties.
Does comrade who deny it, will have to point out a single party which is organized across national borders. All of these Internationals are collections of nationalistic socialist parties. Some are better then others but all of them are structurally Stalinist.
What position should revolutionaries take in this class struggle? We should concentrate our efforts on the most dangerous and powerful enemy the transnationalists. However we must do this without associating oneself with the nationalists and even maintaining our simultaneous attacks on them. We are on the disagreeable position of fighting a war on two fronts that is the result of the damage resulting from all the crimes of Stalinism over the past century. There is no semblance of Internationalism today. Marxists invented the concept of transnationalism and it has been turn against us. Thus all the attacks by the pseudo left on real Marxists and their respective support of transnational capitalism like that of Richard Wolff and Chris Hedges.