NATO at 76: Why was it founded, why doesn’t it collapse? By Erkin Oncan

NATO is a tool of the American empire. From Erkin Oncan at strategic-culture.su:

NATO continues to threaten both the sovereignty of its member and adversary states as well as regional peace.

On April 4, 1949, with the signatures of 12 founding nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) made its entrance onto the stage of history.

The concept that defines NATO is expansion.

Although recent expansions are often seen as a response to Russia’s operations in Ukraine, the principle of “expansion” has been the core driving force of NATO since the day it was founded—and it had to be.

The alliance began with Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It later expanded to include Greece and Turkey in 1952, West Germany in 1955, Spain in 1982, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland in 1997, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia in 2004, Albania and Croatia in 2009, Montenegro in 2017, North Macedonia in 2020, and finally, with Turkey’s approval, Finland and Sweden.

The main target of this expansion has always been, of course, the Soviet Union (USSR), and later, Russia. Each phase of enlargement has simultaneously been a form of encirclement.

Led by the United States, NATO is primarily a war machine that serves the interests of American expansionism.

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