How fitting that a doddering, senile American president should officiate at the NATO summit this week. At 81 years old, Joe Biden is older than the transatlantic military alliance founded 75 years ago in 1949.

The 75th-anniversary gathering in Washington DC was meant to extol the NATO bloc as a guarantor of security and peace.

However, all the cloying, ridiculous hype and fanfare amplified by the Western corporate media could not hide the fact that the American-led military organization has emerged as the biggest threat to world peace.

The disconnect with reality was scathingly summed up by our columnist Martin Jay who surveyed the “lies, double-think and duplicity” spouted by Biden and other leaders of the 32-nation bloc.

Declaring NATO to be a champion of democracy, human rights and international law is an abomination. The organization has evolved as an instrument of U.S. hegemonic imperialist violence ever since its inception. It was never about purported defense, but rather as a seemingly plausible arm of Western warmongering against the Soviet Union and the rest of the planet to serve Western capitalist global domination. The Cold War was always a propaganda construct to give the blatant warmongering a pretense of noble purpose.

To be sure, the docile Western news media, academia and think-tanks wrap up the absurd deception into a plausible narrative. That illustrates the power of propaganda. But the chasm with brutal reality has made the narrative untenable and prone to outright denigration.

After more than three decades since the end of the Soviet Union and the supposed end of the Cold War, the U.S.-led NATO bloc has expanded both in member nations and also in flagrant belligerence. The so-called Cold War never ended. That’s because the need and accompanying pretexts for Western imperialist violence and lawless aggression were always present.

And so at the redundant age of 75 years of aggression, the NATO alliance is expressing more unhinged belligerence than ever before towards Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and any other nation that is deemed to stand in the way of U.S.-led global domination.

This week NATO issued a joint statement that reads like a shocking manifesto of war-making laced with Orwellian bombastic language of self-virtue.

American professor of international law Francis Boyle described the real agenda of NATO’s declaration as “preparing for war against Russia in the immediate future”.

Another of our columnists Ron Ridenour said the NATO document was nothing but a “maniacal scream for world war”.

This was in the same week that the United States announced plans to deploy cruise missiles to Germany capable of striking Moscow and other Russian cities.

It was also the same week that the NATO-backed NeoNazi regime in Ukraine launched a false-flag operation by hitting a children’s hospital in Kiev with an air strike to blame the atrocity on Russia. Our columnist Stephen Karganovic referred to the provocation as “perfect timing” for the NATO summit to commit more money, weapons and training to the Ukrainian regime for prolonging the proxy war against Russia.

See also this previous column by Finian Cunningham which looks at the pattern of false-flag atrocities committed by the Kiev regime to maximize publicity for promoting the NATO war racket. This odious NeoNazi regime is capable of committing the worst crimes against civilians, whether Ukrainian or Russian, just to keep the murderous laundromat in business.

The U.S. and NATO inversion of reality here is stupendous. It’s almost wondrous to behold from the viewpoint of how propaganda and insane war fever operate.

The United States and its Western vassals have reached a historical endpoint. Western economic power is decrepit from decades of corruption, abuse, debt and wanton militarism. The U.S. empire and its dollar crutch are teetering on collapse. In this moment of history of facing existential demise, the United States and its NATO allies are resorting to the desperate measure of inciting war against Russia, China, Iran and indeed the rest of the world who are willing to resist the writ of unipolar Western diktat.

NATO was born in the ashes of the Second World War. That war like the First World War only 21 years before was born out of Western imperialist degeneration and attempts at regeneration through destruction and mayhem. NATO is the heir to the Western imperialist tradition as Nazi Germany was before, as well as British, French and other European fascist powers.

Western imperialism has reached another degenerative existential crisis and the same nefarious process of regeneration through world war has resumed.

This could all go catastrophic. But one may hope that Russia, China and other nations are strong enough militarily, economically and politically, to face down the reckless aggression and insane desire for war.

And of course, NATO leaders and their servile media cheerleaders cannot honestly articulate the underlying locomotive for war. To do so would leave the organization open to worldwide condemnation as heinous and criminal.

The criminal warmongering must be dressed under a veil of do-good and nobility, which requires the telling of the most outrageous, even farcical lies, such as “defending democracy in Ukraine from Russian aggression”.

The delusional disconnect to present such a contemptible charade could only be performed by Western political leaders who are nearly brain-dead.

When the visibly failing Joe Biden addressed the NATO summit, he was more delusional and foul-mouthed than ever. Introducing the NATO-sponsored Ukrainian puppet Vladimir Zelensky, Biden misspoke with cognitive lapse, declaring: “Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin”.

A senile American president, leading a senile U.S. imperialist power and its NATO military enforcer. Biden is the embodiment of the living dead, both as a person and as the entire Western system he represents.