The original NATO members were:
NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance led by the United States during the Cold War
No. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is basically a military alliance between the United States, Canada and Western Europe.
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Yes, and it still is. It's a military alliance with several nations in Europe.
In response to NATO, the Soviets created the Warsaw pact, a military alliance between European communist states like Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Czechoslovakia.
After the USSR collapsed, all of the former Soviet countries remained in a military alliance. This military alliance is called the Commonwealth of Independent States or CIS.
Yes, notably NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded to provide a coordinated military strategy to deal with the perceived threat from the USSR. The Soviet response to this was to create the Warsaw Pact: a military alliance of Russia and its communist Eastern European satellite states.
The European Union does not have the authority to close NATO military bases, as NATO is a separate military alliance comprised of its member states. Decisions regarding NATO bases are made collectively by NATO member countries. While the EU and NATO cooperate on various security issues, any closure or restructuring of military bases would be based on the decisions of NATO and its member nations, not the EU.
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