Category: North Atlantic Treaty Organization — NATO

Denmark Pulled Strings to Silence Journalists and Win Turkey’s NATO Vote, According to Leaked Document

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A leaked US diplomatic cable details the inner workings of how the aspiring NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former Prime Minister of Denmark, negotiated to secure his eventually successful confirmation to that post, with the Danish government pledging to close a Denmark-based Kurdish satellite TV station so as to appease Turkish officials and …

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NATO, Russian Expansionism

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The Cold War saw Eastern Europe with the Soviet Union and Western Europe with the United States squaring off against each other for over 40 years, each vowing to mutually destroy the other with defense agreements should an attack take place. The West’s mutual defense pact, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded in …

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