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By Prince Kapone, Weaponized Information – April 23, 2025
The Atlantic Council would like you to believe that it’s just a neutral think tank. Just a group of suit-and-tie experts scribbling strategy memos in the soft light of democracy. But peel back the language, lift the curtain on their polished panels and policy roundtables, and you’ll see it for what it really is: the ideological arm of NATO, a soft-gloved garrison of empire. And its latest offering on the Middle East—draped in the language of peace and pragmatism—is nothing more than imperialism with a Harvard accent.
Let’s get straight to it. The Atlantic Council’s April 2025 forum on “Trump 2.0 and the Middle East” wasn’t about peace. It was about rebranding domination. It was about maintaining the U.S. death grip on the region through local proxies, economic blackmail, and diplomatic gaslighting. The faces may change, the slogans may update, but the essence remains: Western supremacy, backed by bombs, markets, and silicon.
Trump’s second term has escalated the U.S. campaign of pressure against Iran, pumped more weapons into the Gulf, and propped up a so-called “Riviera in Gaza”—a grotesque fantasy where neoliberal beachfront investments get rolled out atop mass graves. And the Atlantic Council? They’re not just narrating this nightmare. They’re helping design it.
This isn’t about bad policy—it’s about a worldview. The Atlantic Council operates from a core premise: that the U.S. and its allies have a right to shape the political destiny of the Middle East. That NATO’s interests are synonymous with human progress. That so-called “stability” means the suppression of Palestinian resistance, the pillaging of Iraqi oil, and the slow starvation of Yemen.
The report praises “regional autonomy” but only when it aligns with U.S. hegemony. It encourages Arab allies to take on more leadership, so long as they help contain Iran, recognize Israel, and keep their populations in check. It talks of reconstruction, but only through the hands of Western contractors and IMF conditions. It wants peace, sure—but only the kind of peace where U.S. bases remain, dissent is crushed, and the profits keep flowing.
Nowhere in this report will you hear from the working class of Baghdad, from the Palestinian youth in Hebron, from the fisherfolk in Aden. Nowhere will you hear of sovereignty that isn’t licensed by Washington. Because in the imperialist mind, the colonized are not actors—they’re terrains. They’re landscapes to be managed, resources to be extracted, problems to be solved.
But the people of the Middle East are not passive subjects. From the intifadas of Palestine to the strikes in Egypt, from the resistance in Lebanon to the uprisings in Iraq, they have shown again and again that they will not be ruled. The Atlantic Council’s blueprint for the region is a blueprint for permanent occupation. And occupation breeds rebellion.
What we are witnessing is the ideological crisis of the empire itself. These think tanks don’t produce vision—they produce strategy to delay decline. They are the bureaucrats of collapse, the managers of imperial sunset. And this makes them dangerous. Because in their desperation to preserve U.S. dominance, they are willing to sacrifice entire nations on the altar of geopolitics.
We must name the Atlantic Council for what it is: an institution of counterinsurgency, a think tank for technofascism. It cloaks settler colonial logic in multilateralism. It repackages the capitalist world system as “international order.” It launders military domination through academic white papers. And we must meet it not with critique alone, but with revolutionary clarity and organizational fire.
Let this essay serve not as a rebuttal to the Atlantic Council’s report, but as a denunciation of the imperial order it serves. We reject their premises, their frameworks, and their alliances. We stand with the insurgents, the poor, the imprisoned, the displaced. And we affirm, again and again, that the Middle East does not belong to NATO. It belongs to its people.
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