The Greanville Post • Vol. VIII | NATO 1949: The origin of an offensive, expansionist, imperialist military alliance.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, was launched sixty five years ago following the signature of the Atlantic Pact in 1949. The original member states that came together under US tutelage claimed that their alliance was dedicated to the preservation of peace and to the defence of Western Europe against the supposed threat of military aggression. It is noteworthy that the launch of NATO coincided with the intensification of the Cold War, the political division of Germany and the first tentative steps by the US and Britain to rearm the new West German state.
US troops in Lithuania, NATO’s way of showing support for the Baltics against an imaginary Russian “aggression.”
