NATO, the most successful and celebrated alliance in recent times, is in distress. Since the birth of the mutual defense pact, signed in Washington on April 4, 1949, the world has changed. While the United States is still in, Russia, embraced in the NATO-Russia Founding Act and Russia-NATO Council, is not exactly kept out. Germany, supposed to be kept down, has become one of its most valuable members.
NATO, the winner of the Cold War that lasted four decades, is still widely respected for its military prowess and has become the only established organization that links America to Europe, holding trans-Atlantic relations together come rain or come shine.
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