Why does NATO exist?

[Serbian Canadian]

NATO was created in 1949 as a military alliance. It was based on a system of collective defence whereby the member states agreed to mutual defence in response to an attack by an external party. It was constructed in order to defend Western Europe from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. So why does NATO still exist?

[Novakovic]

It was based on a system of collective defence whereby the member states agreed to mutual defence in response to an attack by an external party.

Funny that people from western Europe and the USA were indeed expecting an eventual attack from the Eastern-Block, USSR, while the people in the USSR were not much scared of a military confrontation between the two superpowers. Western people were more affright of the cold war than the Russians.
I think that the cold war was an exaggeration which was needed to give legitimacy to the existence of the NATO-pact.

The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. So why does NATO still exist?

That's true when the USSR collapsed in 1989, the existence of the NATO-pact lost it's major purpose to exist. If the NATO-pact would also disintegrate, Europe would become much more independent from the US and the American influence in Europe would decrease. This did not benefit the American interests on geo-political level. When the USSR collapsed the West needed new arguments to guarantee the legitimacy of the further existing of the NATO.

As soon as the German lands reunified, the European Community started to advocate for the disintegration of Yugoslavia. Everybody knew that civil wars would occur during the disintegration of Yugoslavia,  if Yugoslavia would be forced to split apart into the administrative borders. The civil wars within Yugoslavia gave legitimacy to the existence of the NATO. The NATO was engaged in the separatist wars within Yugoslavia and this was a good opportunity convince Europe that NATO needed to exist.

Currently we have a so called war on terror and that explains also why NATO stil exists.

[ProudToBeSerb]

It was based on a system of collective defence whereby the member states agreed to mutual defence in response to an attack by an external party.

Funny that people from western Europe and the USA were indeed expecting an eventual attack from the Eastern-Block, USSR, while the people in the USSR were not much scared of a military confrontation between the two superpowers. Western people were more affright of the cold war than the Russians.
I think that the cold war was an exaggeration which was needed to give legitimacy to the existence of the NATO-pact.

The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. So why does NATO still exist?

That's true when the USSR collapsed in 1989, the existence of the NATO-pact lost it's major purpose to exist. If the NATO-pact would also disintegrate, Europe would become much more independent from the US and the American influence in Europe would decrease. This did not benefit the American interests on geo-political level. When the USSR collapsed the West needed new arguments to guarantee the legitimacy of the further existing of the NATO.

As soon as the German lands reunified, the European Community started to advocate for the disintegration of Yugoslavia. Everybody knew that civil wars would occur during the disintegration of Yugoslavia,  if Yugoslavia would be forced to split apart into the administrative borders. The civil wars within Yugoslavia gave legitimacy to the existence of the NATO. The NATO was engaged in the separatist wars within Yugoslavia and this was a good opportunity convince Europe that NATO needed to exist.

Currently we have a so called war on terror and that explains also why NATO stil exists.

Rusians are people with faith and they are not afraid to die because they are easy at giving their material lives but the western population of people are materialists and they are afraid of dieing so that is why they are more afraid of rusians than they are of them...

[Novakovic]

I know that...
The point is that cold war propaganda was mostly broadcasted in the West.

[sonja_yu]

To create more taxes and make people more desperate and angry (not exactly, but that's what it came to be).

[ProudToBeSerb]

To create more taxes and make people more desperate and angry (not exactly, but that's what it came to be).

That is one of the plans they have... To profit as much as they can and gain more and more power...

[Boyana]

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=no-us-pressure-on-serbia-to-join-nato-says-general-2010-03-10



Serbian Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Miloje Miletic said there is no pressure from the US for Serbia to change its position on military neutrality and NATO membership, the Balkan Insight reported on its Web site.

After returning from a multi-day visit to the United States, Miletic told broadcaster B92 that all the people he met on the trip knew that the Serbian parliament passed a resolution on military neutrality last April and that Belgrade has opted to cooperate with NATO through the alliance's Partnership for Peace program, PfP.

[sonja_yu]

To create more taxes and make people more desperate and angry (not exactly, but that's what it came to be).

That is one of the plans they have... To profit as much as they can and gain more and more power...

So that they could play World's Ultimate power which will be unquestionable by anyone.
Militant postulate for despot dictatorship of the few, hidden behind the fairy tales of the 'Free World' which is impossible in reality. And this is not from a nationalistic or conspiracy point of view, but philosophic, so some might not see it in the right way.

[Holy Terror]

In the old days they needed one kind of anti-Commie alliance to stop Commie expansion (though it didn't work), too bad the Commies and Muzlims themeselves are controling NATO.

[Edward]

The Communists have no power nowadays.

[Holy Terror]

The Communists have no power nowadays.

Oh they do....................