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NATO
[ney-toh, en-ey-tee-oh]
abbreviation
North Atlantic Treaty Organization: a political and military alliance established in 1949 in Washington, D.C., by 12 countries in Europe and North America for the purpose of collective defense against aggression, now comprising 32 member nations: Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
NATO
/ ˈԱɪəʊ /
acronym
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an international organization composed of the US, Canada, Britain, and a number of European countries: established by the North Atlantic Treaty (1949) for purposes of collective security. In 1994 it launched the Partnership for Peace initiative, in order to forge alliances with former Warsaw Pact countries; in 1997 a treaty of cooperation with Russia was signed and in 1999 Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic became full NATO members
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Poland shares borders with both Ukraine and Russia and is rapidly expanding its armed forces, vowing to spend almost 5% of GDP on the military this year – the highest in NATO.
You have to understand that in those early days Russia repeatedly claimed it was really fighting the U.S. and NATO.
Now I watch a president who has dismantled USAID, created by President Kennedy, and seems uninterested in NATO, created under President Truman.
The question is whether they are going to go along with Trump and his minions throwing their weight around at NATO, the G7 or the G20 anymore.
We asked for NATO's figures, but they said they were classified.
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