THE ORIGINAL goal of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), according to its first Secretary General, was 'to keep the Soviets out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.'Today, the Soviet Union is gone, the United States is dominant, and Germany is industrialising. Has NATO achieved its goals? If so, why does it still exist? And why did Fidel Castro call it 'the most perfidious instrument of repression known to mankind'?
For Episode 6 of The International, a world-spanning video series brought to you by Jacobin and the Progressive International, journalist Abby Martin examines NATO’s global footprint and explains why this 'defensive alliance' might end up causing World War III.
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