NATO, the main overseas arm of the U.S. military-industrial complex, just keeps expanding. Its original raison d’ĂȘtre, the supposedly menacing Soviet bloc, has been dead for twenty years. But like the military-industrial complex itself, NATO is kept alive and growing by entrenched economic interests, institutional inertia and an official mindset resembling paranoia, with think tanks looking around desperately for “threats”.
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