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The '''North Atlantic Treaty Organisation''', more often called '''NATO''', is an anticommunist international military treaty created in the [[imperial core]] following [[World War II]]. | The '''North Atlantic Treaty Organisation''', more often called '''NATO''', is an anticommunist international military treaty created in the [[imperial core]] following [[World War II]].<ref>{{News citation|author=[[Ben Norton]]|newspaper=[[Multipolarista]]|title=NATO is a tool of US imperialism that has backed Nazis for decades|date=2022-06-14|url=https://youtu.be/Maqkl4fEQfs}}</ref> | ||
Its original aim was to defend bourgeois republics against a possible Soviet liberation of Europe. When this reality never materialized, NATO moved to funding anticommunist (more often [[Fascism|fascist]]) acts in Europe and abroad. | Its original aim was to defend bourgeois republics against a possible Soviet liberation of Europe. When this reality never materialized, NATO moved to funding anticommunist (more often [[Fascism|fascist]]) acts in Europe and abroad. | ||
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, more often called NATO, is an anticommunist international military treaty created in the imperial core following World War II.[1]
Its original aim was to defend bourgeois republics against a possible Soviet liberation of Europe. When this reality never materialized, NATO moved to funding anticommunist (more often fascist) acts in Europe and abroad.
Members
The 12 founding members of NATO were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States.[2]
Since that time, other countries have joined the alliance: Greece and Turkey (1952), Germany (1955), Spain (1982), the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland (1999), Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia (2004), Albania and Croatia (2009), Montenegro (2017) and North Macedonia (2020)[2].
In 1990, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker claimed NATO would not expand into Eastern Europe, although this proved to be a lie.[3]
Anticommunist projects
NATO took over anti-Soviet subversive activities from their predecessors when they started operating Nazi general Richard Gehlen's network of spies in the Soviet Union.
NATO is perhaps best known among European communists for Operation Gladio, which is a name given to a series of operations that consisted of funding fascist groups in Europe to assassinate and destabilize communists in the 20th century.
Imperialist acts
When the USA was attacked on September 11, 2001 and followed with a declaration of war against Iraq for imperialist interests, NATO -- by their own admission -- put their principle of collective defence to practice: if one member country is attacked, then all must join the war in defense. It is important to note that the government of Iraq never claimed responsibility or was ever tied to the terrorist attacks. Notably, president Bush admitted in 2006 that Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq in 2001, was not responsible for the attack[4].
The Coalition fighting in Afghanistan, in a conflict that started in 1979 when the Afghan government asked the USSR to help fight against the Mujahideen, was sent on the request of NATO.