*Fear as a business model: NATO drives the world toward permanent war—and makes Its members pay for it

Biological weapons, climate wars, AI attacks, drone strikes—NATO sees no end to threats because it wants no end to war.

Under the leadership of Secretary General Mark Rutte, the alliance has definitively abandoned any notion of collective security and evolved into what it is today: the central engine of global rearmament, escalation, and permanent war hysteria.

With the slick propaganda video “NATO from Foresight to Warfight,” produced by Allied Command Transformation (ACT) in Norfolk, Virginia, the alliance openly reveals where it is headed: away from diplomacy, away from conflict prevention, and toward the total militarization of the future.

What is sold here as “foresight” is nothing more than an ideological transition to permanent war readiness.

First presented at the “Allied Foresight Conference” in Rome, the video is a pure orgy of fearmongering. Climate is rebranded as a weapon of war, technology is stylized as an apocalyptic threat, and artificial intelligence, drones, and biological weapons are staged as the inevitable future of the battlefield—not to prevent these scenarios, but to legitimize them.

Under the cynical slogan “Tomorrow Starts Today,” NATO makes one thing clear: peace is not an option.

The so-called “Strategic Foresight Analysis,” which allegedly examines trends through 2043, serves merely as a fig leaf for the “NATO Warfighting Capstone Concept”—a roadmap for military escalation for decades to come. Everything is declared a battlefield: the climate, the economy, technology, and society itself.

Climate wars, biological weapons, AI attacks—these scenarios are not warnings; they are a business model.

The greater the fear, the larger the budgets. The more diffuse the threat, the more boundless NATO’s authority. This is how rearmament, militarization, and the diversion of public funds into weapons programs are justified, while social systems are hollowed out.

NATO from Foresight to Warfight

Projects such as “Task Force X Baltic,” where unmanned systems and AI are tested in the Baltic Sea, show how serious NATO is about this shift: away from democratic oversight, away from slow—meaning controllable—decision-making processes, and toward “operating at speed.”

Speed, in this context, means less debate, less accountability, and more escalation.

This course is driven by a secretary general who already demonstrated, as prime minister of the Netherlands, how little social stability, democratic responsibility, or long-term societal cohesion matter to him. Mark Rutte is now exporting precisely this political model on a global scale: the erosion of responsibility, the expansion of power, and destruction as collateral damage.

NATO does not listen. It does not negotiate. It does not de-escalate. It rattles sabers—and forces its member states to pay for their own potential destruction. Higher military spending, endless arms races, and a policy of confrontation are sold as having no alternative.

The message is unmistakable: NATO does not want peace. It wants dominance. It wants permanent war preparation as a normal condition. And it wants the public to finance this policy through fear—today, tomorrow, and well beyond 2043.