The Soviet Union is history, but the Russian menace that Putin represents will continue to push and intervene far beyond its borders
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization turns 70 this week. In April 1949, representatives from Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal joined the United States in signing the NATO agreement. The heart of the agreement was and still is Article 5, which states that each member is to consider an armed attack against one member to be an armed attack against them all.
From the beginning, NATO was a military alliance and the first such organization that either Canada or the United States had ever joined in peacetime. It gave military muscle to American plans to “contain” the Soviet Union — not to try to push the Soviets back by war, but to draw a line around the USSR and its satellite states and dare the Russians to cross it.
But why did NATO not disappear after the disappearance of the Soviet Union? After all, the threat of Soviet aggression had held it together for 50 years, but suddenly the threat of Soviet aggression seemed to disappear. But what of the future? We now live in the age of so-called populism. Several European nations have expressed displeasure with the EU. Is NATO next?
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