This is the dumbest thing I’ve read in a while. The Soviet Union would have been steamrolled if it hadn’t made a pact to stall for time to industrialize & militarize before the inevitable Nazi assault.
On the other hand, they wouldn’t have had a space program without the Nazi scientists…
The difference is that they only used their labor; they didn’t promote them to leadership positions throughout the Eastern Bloc.
- The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
- CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
- Noam Chomsky, 2023: NATO “most violent, aggressive alliance in the world”
- Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
- Gabriel Rockhill, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It