NATO! What is it good for?

War mongering

Founded in 1949 NATO was 'purely defensive', in the 1960's it's main function was meant to be detente; easing of relationships between the US and the Soviet Union. According to NATO’S own website page entitled Defence and Deterrence;

'The Warsaw Pact embodied what was referred to as the Eastern bloc, while NATO and its member countries represented the Western bloc.

NATO and the Warsaw Pact were ideologically opposed and, over time, built up their own defences starting an arms race that lasted throughout the Cold War.

The Warsaw Pact was declared at an end on 25 February 1991 and the Czechoslovak President, Vaclav Havel, formally declared an end to it on 1 July 1991. Gorbachev’s policy of openness (Glasnost) and restructuring (Perestroika), together with other initiatives, opened the way for popular uprisings. The Berlin Wall fell in November 1989 and communist governments in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania and Bulgaria started to fall.

The break-up of the Warsaw Pact was shortly followed by the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991.

Err.... and that was where the page ends. Why was NATO not also dissolved. It can only be considered to be a group of 'western' countries ganging up on an enemy that no longer exists and/or bureaucrats justifying their existence and/or war mongering bullies. Its mere continued existence can’t help but provoke Russia, the largest of the former Soviet union countries.

The UN is meant to be the agency that eases relationships between countries. The Cold War is over.

What does the world need NATO for?

Jo