DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
- Outlet: nafeza2world.com ( archive, original ) , arabic.rt.com ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , asrar7.com ( archive, original ) , raialyoum.com ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , yemen-publisher.com ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , m.msader-ye.net ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , msader24.xyz ( archive, original ) , msdernet.xyz ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , eshraag.com ( archive, original ) , marayainternational.com ( archive, original ) , ruarab.top ( archive, original )
- Date of publication: November 14, 2021
- Article language(s): Arabic
DISINFO: After the Warsaw Pact's dissolution, NATO has no purpose
SUMMARY
All nations should think now, not tomorrow, about how to get rid of “NATO” bases on their soil, and the Arab countries should stay away from “NATO”, the military alliance, which after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact no longer has a clear goal. What threatens "NATO" now, and what are its goals?
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about NATO.
NATO’s objectives are set out in the 1949 Washington Treaty which forms the legal basis of the alliance. The treaty states that parties “are resolved to unite their efforts for collective defence and for the preservation of peace and security”. Since then, more countries have chosen to join NATO. The Alliance has taken on new missions and adapted to new challenges, all the while sticking to its fundamental principles of security, collective defence, and decision-making by consensus.
Twice since the end of the Cold War, NATO has adopted new Strategic Concepts (in 1999 and 2010), adapting to new realities. Thus, rather than being disbanded, NATO adapted, and continues to change, to live up to the needs and expectations of Allies, and to promote their shared vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.
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