DJ, NL has been a member of NATO since (before) it started in april 1949.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_NATO - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_NATO or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_NATO ; The history of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) begins in the immediate aftermath of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II - World War II when British diplomacy set the stage to contain the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union - Soviet Union and to stop the expansion of Soviet power in Europe. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom - United Kingdom and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France - France signed, in 1947, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Dunkirk - Treaty of Dunkirk , a defensive pact, which was expanded in 1948 with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Brussels - Treaty of Brussels to add the three https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benelux - Benelux countries ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium - Belgium , the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands - Netherlands , and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg - Luxembourg ) and committed them to collective defense against an armed attack for fifty years. The British worked with Washington to expand the alliance into NATO in 1949, adding the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States - United States and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada - Canada as well as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy - Italy , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal - Portugal , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway - Norway , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark - Denmark , and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland - Iceland . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_NATO#cite_note-wiebes_zeeman-1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece - Greece and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey - Turkey joined in 1952, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany - West Germany joined in 1955, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain - Spain joined in 1982, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic - Czech Republic , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary - Hungary and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland - Poland joined in 1999, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria - Bulgaria , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia - Estonia , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia - Latvia , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania - Lithuania , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania - Romania , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia - Slovakia , and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia - Slovenia joined in 2004, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania - Albania and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia - Croatia joined in 2009, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro - Montenegro joined in 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Macedonia - North Macedonia joined in 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland - Finland joined in 2023, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden - Sweden joined in 2024.
DJ, So NL, Belgium joined "pre-NATO" in 1948...At that time all major members UK-France-NL and Belgium all were in (lots of) colonial wars...in Africa and Asia most...
From the start "stop communism" was part of a neo-colonial agenda. Therefore pro-western "leaders" in (former) colonies had to allow western companies to steal energy, gold, order coffee, cacao, fruits etc...
The basic idea was "western whites" know best..."colonial subjects" were there to be exploited...De-colonization did result in neo-colonialism without the burden to "care for people"...."Keep them poor and uneducated"-was good for profits....
"USrael" also started in 1948....backed by both the US and Soviet Union. The Soviet Union-stalin-hoped former Jewish Red Army/World War Two veterans would play a major role in a "Jewish State"....
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