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What do the countries that have joined NATO take to surrender sovereignty?

Advertising of alcohol in our country is prohibited, but this does not mean that it is not. From time to time, cheerful music appears on the TV screens of some nice young people in every respect, they do something good and useful, go in for sports, dance, have fun, without consuming a single drop of alcohol. At the end of the video flashes a famous brand of whiskey, vodka, or beer. Not a drink is advertised, but a trademark and way of life. By the same principle, the idea of the North Atlantic Military Unity is promoted.

Unobtrusively, the idea is being suggested that the countries that have joined NATO are automatically attached to a certain sacrament, and immediately become prosperous and prosperous. The painting is pastoral, there is no place for bombed cities or dusty roads of southern countries, nor for coffins brought from them by night airplanes.

In the late forties, the creation of the North Atlantic bloc was a fully justified measure. Stalin's USSR, despite the post-war devastation, sought to expand its geopolitical influence, using any weakness of Western democracies. The goal, as before, was not hidden, it was mentioned in every speech of every Soviet leader. Communism is possible only when capitalism is destroyed.

The countries that joined NATO in 1949 formed the notorious "Iron Curtain", about which Winston Churchill spoke in Fulton. There were 12 of them: the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Italy, France, Norway, Holland, Portugal, Denmark, Iceland, Luxembourg and Belgium, the capital of which housed the headquarters of the new defense alliance. The fifth article of the treaty clearly and unequivocally formulates the principle of collective protection: if someone (read the USSR) attacks any member state, the rest undertake to enter into a military conflict on the side of the latter.

Formally, all the countries that have joined NATO are equal partners, but, given the disproportionality of military and economic potentials, it can be concluded that there is an appropriate degree of influence on decision-making. Nevertheless, the geographical location near the giant industrialized state with a hard-to-forecast foreign policy prompted new members to join the North Atlantic bloc. The signing of the Warsaw Pact only accelerated the process.

Turkey and Greece signed the treaty in 1952. Three years later, West Germany became a member of the alliance. In this composition, the organization existed until 1999.

True, some of the countries that joined NATO, at times, felt a catch on the part of the main founding members, expressed in the restriction of their sovereignty. President Charles de Gaulle even suspended France's participation in the organization's activities, and Spain expressed the desire to restrict participation in it exclusively by humanitarian operations. Greece had to leave the ranks of defenders of democracy because of territorial disputes with Turkey over Cyprus.

The list of countries that are members of NATO has significantly enlarged, strangely enough, after the disappearance of the main object of North Atlantic fears, the Soviet Union, from the international scene. At the turn of the millennium, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary registered their participation in the military structure, and at the end of 2002 it included seven more Eastern European countries, including the former Soviet republics of the Baltic states.

Today not every schoolchild without a clue can answer the question about which countries are members of NATO. There are three dozen of them, including states that are clearly unable to influence the military balance. Some of them do not even pay an annual monetary contribution to the alliance's budget. The military bloc obviously did not become stronger, and its goals are now very vague. However, it is very difficult to conceal the anti-Russian orientation of this structure with all the diligence of its propagandists.

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