IS NATO REALLY NECESSARY?
NATO's many enlargements since 1952. Since its founding after World War II, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has known many expansion phases, from 1952 to 2020, but its usefulness may be seen as less than before, since the countries that form the European Union (EU) are collectively more populous, more developed economically and more powerful military than NATO's apparent adversary, which is to say the Russian Federation, the main fragment of the old Union of Soviets Socialists Republics (USSR). The expansion phases has occurred before the fall and dissolution of the USSR (at the juncture of the 80' and the 90') and after. For most of its history, its main defensive axis was along the line Germany/Alps/Italy , with a northern wing (through Denmark and Norway), and a southern one (through Greece and Turkey), both wings actually bordering parts of the territory of the Soviet Union at their respective extremity. Since the collapse of the USSR and as the resu...