" NATO was founded with just one purpose - fight the imaginary battles with imaginary enemies of a paranoid US president with huge daddy issues"
Hmmm - I seem to remember things like the Soviet takeover in Czechoslovakia and Hungary, the pressure on Yugoslavia, the Greek Civil War and of course the Berlin Blockade... but they must have been "imaginary"
And it grew out of an Anglo French Agreement immediately post war to defend against German or Russian threats sometime in the far future............