Virginia NATO Base is “fully operational” and ready to support the “international order”
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul recently introduced an amendment to reaffirm that NATO cannot supersede Congress in declaring U.S. involvement in war, however it was rejected by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.[1]
Few Americans may realize that Virginia is home to the NATO Allied Joint Force Command in Norfolk.[2] The United States continues[3] to finance NATO as it has done for decades.[4][5][6]
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NATO is a close partner of the UN.[7]
NATO is interested in forming their own bank and deploying 5G.[8] / NATO-Financing-Gap
George Soros wrote Toward a New World Order: The Future of NATO in 1993
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August 14, 2022 | By Renee Parsons | sarahwestall.com |
HERE ARE THE FACTS: Norfolk NATO Base is “fully operational” and ready to support the “international order”
Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Mark Milley stated that NATO new headquarters at the NAVAL base in Norfolk, VA has “full readiness” and is now “fully operational” in support of the “international order” and in anticipation of the “Battle of the Atlantic”.
Pentagon spokesman, John Kirby, stated that “placing the U.S. Carrier Strike Force under NATO shows our commitment to the alliance.”
Question: Is the Norfolk NAVAL base now under the command of NATO? Or, maybe more likely, is it ready to be put under full NATO command at any time?
HERE ARE THE FACTS
By Renee Parsons
In October 2019, the U.S. Navy celebrated its 244th Birthday. Beginning as privateers hired by the colonists to attack British commerce vessels during the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress established a naval force in October, 1775. President John Adams signed the Act to formally establish the Department of the Navy in 1798.
Described as the largest naval station in the world, the Norfolk Naval Base was established in 1917 with 3,400 acres including four miles of waterfront space, eleven miles of pier and wharf space to accommodate seventy-five ships, one hundred thirty four aircraft, fourteen piers and eleven air craft hangars.
NATO and the UN have had a cooperative relationship to “global crisis management” since the 1990’s in support of UN Security Council resolutions in the Balkans, Afghanistan, Libya and now Ukraine. On June 4, 2021, NATO Chief Jan Stoltenberg called for more investment from the Alliance and adherence to NATO’s 2030 Agenda as it takes a more global approach.
NATO apologists say that there is ‘no evidence that Naval Station Norfolk was surrendered to NATO” and that the US Department of Defense “refuted the claim.”
By creating a military and political alliance, why would the US Government or the Pentagon relinquish its largest and most strategically important Naval base at Norfolk to any foreign military entity including NATO? Perhaps a better word than “surrender’ might be that the US Government has ‘abdicated’ its responsibility for Norfolk or that it has “relinquished’ its global supremacy and its authority to NATO. Where is the DOD’s refutation? Questions remain about how the Pentagon allowed NATO’s invasive presence at Norfolk and we remain committed to discover the true story.
It is true that no national news outlets have reported on NATO’s acquisition of the Norfolk base with no press release from the Department of Defense, the Navy and NATO informing the American public or explaining the NATO-Norfolk association. That is exactly the point! There has been a national news black out with no public notice or announcement except in the localized Norfolk area.
- The truth is that two months prior to the 2020 election on September 17, 2020 (see Action Alert), Royal Navy Admiral Andrew Betton of the JFC and US Admiral Andrew Lewis cut the ribbon inaugurating the ‘initial operational capability ceremony’ of NATO at the Norfolk Naval facility. No member of the Trump Administration was in attendance.
- By October 16, 2020, seventeen days before the 2020 election, a new sign “Welcome to Norfolk – NATO’s Home in North America” was unveiled at the arrival gate of the Norfolk Airport. By that time, Norfolk had become home to both the NATO-Allied Command Transformation (ACT) and NATO’s Joint Force Command Norfolk (JFC).
Norfolk, VA – Alongside City of Norfolk Mayor Kenneth Alexander, PhD., Commander, Joint Force Command Norfolk Vice Admiral Andrew Lewis, US Navy, and Chairman of the Norfolk Airport Authority Board of Commissioners Captain Malcolm P. Branch, US Navy (Ret.), General André Lanata, North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Supreme Allied Commander, Transformation, unveiled new NATO signs to be placed around the City of Norfolk -
Army Gen. Mark A. Milley spoke to assembled dignitaries on the USS Kearsarge along with the U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Andrew L. Lewis, the Joint Force Command — Norfolk and U.S. Second Fleet commander. By July, 15 2021, as confirmed by Defense News, the Allied Joint Force Command Norfolk (JFC) held a ceremony to declare its NATO Norfolk base to be ‘fully operational capability,” at “full readiness as the first operational NATO headquarters in North America”. The term “fully operational” means that the Command is at full staff. Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Mark Milley attended to give his blessing to NATO, in support of the ‘international order’ and in anticipation of the “Battle of the Atlantic”. See Milley’s full speech
- In February 2022, the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group first sailed under the command of the NATO’s Naval Striking and Support Forces. On July 20, 2022, it was announced that the USS Harry S. Truman CSG was now under NATO tactical and operational command as it participated in an ‘exercise’ with NATO allies. Such transfer of authority raises the question of whether the US President’s authority as Commander-in-Chief has been unconstitutionally constrained and whether the President’s constitutional authority has been undermined with respect to the conduct of diplomacy.
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