Admitted Quote by Martin Jacques

NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from…

— Noam Chomsky

We created NATO. It was a United States invention for the collective security of Europe. It has been a Russian desire since 1947 to…

— Malcolm Nance

NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet…

— Vladimir Putin

“The purpose of the NATO alliance is "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”

— Lord Ismay

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done…

— Barney Frank

What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago, the secretary-general…

— Noam Chomsky

As the Cold War came to a close, Soviet leaders preferred that U.S. forces remain in Europe and NATO stay intact, an arrangement they…

— John Mearsheimer

For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff I was…

— Noam Chomsky

Ever since the end of the Cold War, it has been our paramount interest in Europe to strengthen NATO and to extend it -…

— Tom Malinowski

I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact;…

— Jeremy Corbyn

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

— Vladimir Putin

NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone.

— Vladimir Putin