A few days ago marked the 70th anniversary for perhaps one of the most important alliances in the 20th and 21st centuries, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
NATO was a direct response to the "iron curtain" that was the Soviet Union. Everywhere there was a Soviet or Communist presence there was NATO. For example it was NATO troops that kept South Korea free and NATO's arms that supplied Afghan freedom fighters from counting their resistance to Soviet occupation. After 9/11, NATO invoked Article 5, the article that declares that an, "attack on one is an attack on all" and many member nations joined the US led coalition in both the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. While the threat of communism has mostly been won, the threat of Russia, China and terrorism remain every high. In fact NATO is currently training Ukrainian forces to fight off the Russian invasion that embarked in 2014. NATO is also currently supplying the South Korean and Japanese militaries (in Japan's case it's their "defense force") against possible war with North Korea and China. However NATO is mostly an anti-terrorism organization currently. With all member nations sharing intelligence on possible terrorists in their respective countries. All in all, NATO needs to stick around and step up is role in the protection of individual freedoms around the globe. -Jared Zimmerman
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