Alas, you're simply parroting NATO warmongers' agenda. What reason NATO even had for its existence and continual eastbound enlargement after Cold War I had come to the unexpected not-so-grand finale? NATO is a dangerous relic of this nasty era, that mad boomers on both sides of the new Iron Curtain were constantly seeking to resurrect. Had it been disbanded along with Warsaw Pact, the lessons of Cold War I would not have risen again before us to study.