“NATO was an Anglo-American construct to maintain control over the conquered nations of Europe.”
That sounds so damn learned.
Maintain control???
Then why did the United States implement the Marshall Plan to enable them to function independently and prosperously?
Anglo-American??
Well, in case you can’t remember, those two were the victors and main democratic countries left standing after the war. Should they have just stood down and let whatever the hell happens to happen.
You been reading up on CRT?
NATO was formed at the urgent request of prostrate Western European countries, devastated by war, and facing a hundred divisions of a surly Red Army just across the way. NATO was Europe’s idea, not ours. We were busy demobilizing at the time.