In July 2026, NATO will hold its Summit in Ankara. The purpose is to further discuss and review the implementation of last year’s Hague Summit decision to raise military spending by all NATO member states to 5% of GDP. It is also intended to strengthen support for Ukraine, isolate Iran, and intensify the encirclement of China. Through NATO, the Indo-Pacific Partners (IP4)—Japan, the ‘Republic of Korea (ROK)’, Australia, and New Zealand—are being drawn into military standardization and the integration of intelligence systems. A NATO Joint Forum with the four Gulf states—Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait—as well as a NATO Defense Industry and Emerging Technologies event are also scheduled. The Joint Forum is a venue for imperialist propaganda, while the defense industry event serves as an opportunity to integrate AI-based offensive weapons systems between NATO and pro-NATO states. NATO’s maneuvers to intensify World War 3 are thus unfolding in a systematic and comprehensive manner.
It has now been more than four years since the war in Ukraine—set in motion by the 2014 Maidan coup and entering a full-scale phase with Russia’s Special Military Operation in February 2022, which was launched as an unavoidable measure to halt NATO’s eastward expansion. World War 3 then spread from Ukraine to West Asia, including Palestine, in October 2023, and has since moved toward East Asia. In July 2024, through the Washington Summit and RIMPAC exercise, NATO completed the “Pacificization of NATO” not only politically but militarily as well. Then, in the autumn of that year, the aggressive imperialist forces and the ‘ROK’ fascist forces escalated their war provocations against the DPRK and attempted a coup within the ‘ROK,’ pushing the ‘ROK’ and East Asia as a whole to the brink of war. In February 2026, the imperialist aggression launched by US imperialism and the Israeli Zionists against Iran and other parts of West Asia once again placed the world in an extremely dangerous situation, with the threat of an East Asian war following the West Asian conflict―the full-scale escalation of World War 3―drawing ever closer.
NATO is conducting large-scale, multi-domain joint military exercises in Europe on a daily basis, and the spearhead of its attack is aimed entirely at Russia. It is no longer a secret that Ukraine’s drone attacks against Russia carry the risk of expanding and deepening the Ukrainian war into an Eastern European war, and from a conventional war into a nuclear war. It is in the same context that the invasion of Lebanon is continued by the Israeli Zionists, who oppose the memorandum of understanding between Iran and the USA, becoming a new detonator for a West Asian war. The forces behind the Ukrainian neo-Nazis and Israeli Zionists are none other than the aggressive imperialist forces, including NATO. Imperialism is trying to escalate regional wars through proxy wars using fascists as its stooges, and then use this as a springboard to transform and develop them into a world war. We must unconditionally thwart the expansion into an Eastern European war and the outbreak of an East Asian war, following the West Asian war, which imperialism is relentlessly pushing forward and which signifies the stage of full-scale escalation of World War 3.
With NATO as its war and massacre machine, imperialism is the main culprit of war and the root of all evil. Imperialism is trying to unleash a storm of nuclear war throughout the world, using NATO as the headquarters for World War 3. The dissolution of NATO and the overthrow of imperialism are the most urgent tasks of the people throughout the world who aspire to peace, independence, and liberation, and they constitute the strategic central link leading towards human emancipation. The aspiration of the people is always peace, not war; independence, not domination; and liberation, not subordination. Today, anti-NATO and anti-imperialism are the only way to prevent war, safeguard peace, and escape from domination and subordination; they are the banner of justice. Since its founding in October 2022, the World Anti-imperialist Platform, which has consistently waged practical struggles against NATO and imperialism as well as an ideological warfare against opportunism, will continue to fight even more vigorously at the forefront without faltering. We are convinced that the people throughout the world, firmly united in the world anti-imperialist front, will put an end to NATO and imperialism through an all-people’s resistance and bring forward the realization of the historical cause of permanent peace and global independence.
Disband NATO, the war machine and massacre machine!
Down with imperialism, the main culprit of war and the root of all evil!
July 4, 2026
World Anti-imperialist Platform