What is NATO?

Proponents of NATO believe it is a Defensive Alliance, formed to deter aggression from Authoritarian States.

From it's inception, the USA was the primary power in the "alliance."  Why was the USA doing this, for the benefit of humanity?

Obviously, from the American perspective, NATO has always been an instrument of projecting US power, and suppressing/defeating/neutralizing potential competitors to US Imperialism, which has been globally hegemonic since the Dissolution of the USSR, and semi-hegemonic after the end of World War II.

Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya were no threat to NATO but NATO chose to decapitate and/or destroy them anyway.  Because they weren't following US dictats.  Syria and Yugoslavia were targeted because they were friendly to a key US competitor, Russia.

Fighting the rise of any competitor, and in particular Russia, has been the key US interest from the start.

Russia is a large country with a lot of potential as yet far from realized.  It's adjacency to both Europe and China in the modern long-supply-chain but increasing-transportation-costs world.  The longstanding US advantage in relative isolation from the rest of the world is looking, more and more, to become a disadvantage.

So, in the effort to retain global hegemony, US has been pulling out the stops to provoke wars with both Russia and China.

This is Organized Crime on a global scale.

It's not clear what the outcome will be.  The Crime Family may live to fight another day, and another day after that, but for how long is unknown.  Will human society collapse for other reasons first, or will The Empire and it's Enemies bring it down first?  But sooner or later, a crime syndicate has to fail, either before, after, or along with everything else, because, basically, it eats away at everything else which ultimately supports it.

This is the failure of every great empire which has come before.

The people of the US could choose to be something more sustainable.  What form that might take is unclear (of course, I recommend Communism).  But one thing is abundantly clear, it cannot be an empire.  That means an entirely different approach in many ways, and especially in less Finance and Military Industrial Complex.

And so, I oppose the very existence of NATO.