Assault Quote by Noam Chomsky

Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a…

— Martin Jacques

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

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

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

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

I think NATO needs to redefine itself. There has been no substantial thought about what NATO is for since the Berlin Wall came down.

— Nigel Farage

I think NATO is obsolete. NATO was done at a time you had the Soviet Union, which was obviously larger - much larger than…

— Donald Trump

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

I welcome the fact that Trump has clearly stated that NATO is not obsolete.And I think, also, that reflects that NATO is adapting. NATO…

— Jens Stoltenberg

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

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

— Lord Ismay