There was a SEATO in Southeast Asia from 1954 to 1977 (Australia, France, New Zealand, America, Great Britain, Pakistan, Phillippines, and Thailand were members.) Nobody got along and it just fell apart for a number of complicated reasons.

The NATO "defense" of Lithuania would be to threaten to use tactical nuclear weapons on certain key sites.

There was also a giant collection of surplus weapons after WWII on the American side and they had to be sold off/given away to places like Belgium and South America to keep warehouse costs down. That was another push for some sort of alliance.

It was West Germany, which was just 2/3rds of the prewar Germany. Not "Germany", which didn't come back until 1991.

Why does NATO exist?  Defense against whom?  The combined defense spending of NATO is $1.25 trillion.  The defense spending of Russia is $65 billion.

We’re joined by independent researcher Ben (twitter.com/housetrotter) for a multi-part series exploring the theory and practice of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Part One is about the creation of NATO and the early years of the organization.

Episode 212: NATO (Part 1)

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