Originally Posted by
usedtobeATC
NATO was created not by Europe, but by America, and the brighter it burns here, the more America will rejoice. Who bombed Yugoslavia in 1999? Maybe Russia or France or England or someone else?
Everyone has his own opinion and NATO (USA) has it`s own too. In order to increase military spending, it is necessary that the society itself asks for this. That's why two James Bonds were invented (Petrov and Bashirov), which intimidated all of Europe. I wonder what will happen if the Red Army comes there?
NATO was not created by the USA.
On 4 March 1947, the Treaty of Dunkirk was signed by France and the UK as a Treaty of Alliance and Mutual Assistance in the event of a possible attack by Germany or the Soviet Union in the aftermath of WW2. In 1948, this alliance was expanded to include the Benelux countries, in the form of the Western Union, also referred to as the Brussels Treaty Organization (BTO), established by the Treaty of Brussels. Talks for a new military alliance, which could also include North America, resulted in the signature of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949 by the member states of the Western Union plus the United States, Canada, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.
So it was created by diplomacy, discussion, and cooperation, not the hand of oppression like the Warsaw Pact.