’10 years of NATO’ — Swiss cartoon (May 1959) celebrating the tenth anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty. By Fritz Behrendt for Nebelspalter magazine.

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1. All of it undone by one Orange moron

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4. Any chance for the EU army to grow the same in the next 10 years?

5. Fuck NATO. If anyone needs more reasons to I’m willing to provide.

6. Ah yes, the red scare. That wonderful time period that made us forget the point was to stop fascism and focus on labeling anything that might whiff of left leaning anti-fascist resistance as “communist”.

7. Looks oddly similar to the posters Goebbels used to draw

8. This does imply that NATO was weak after WW2.

   The Russians did not just shrug off WW2, large parts of their country where destroyed. In contrast to the US.

   This implies the Russians could’ve just walked over Nato in 1949. Which is wrong on so many levels.

   Nato members 1949

   >NATO’s original members in 1949 were [Belgium](https://www.britannica.com/place/Belgium), [Canada](https://www.britannica.com/place/Canada), [Denmark](https://www.britannica.com/place/Denmark), [France](https://www.britannica.com/place/France), [Iceland](https://www.britannica.com/place/Iceland), [Italy](https://www.britannica.com/place/Italy), [Luxembourg](https://www.britannica.com/place/Luxembourg), the [Netherlands](https://www.britannica.com/place/Netherlands), [Norway](https://www.britannica.com/place/Norway), [Portugal](https://www.britannica.com/place/Portugal), the [United Kingdom](https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom), and the [United States](https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States).

   This looks like cold war propaganda.

9. And now it is just a crazy old man.

10. And now 2025 which will possibly be the end of NATO since we have to kick out the USA for threatening to attack Denmark.

11. Actually this guy was a Dutch citizen: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Behrendt (Of German origin, fled to the Netherlands, voluntarily returned toe East Germany (DDR), imprisoned in the DDR released, and returned to the Netherlands in 1950 )

    As for the cartoon itself: it plays into the mainly Russian narrative that these see themselves as ‘strong’, whereas push comes to shove they turn out to be a [Potemkin village](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village)

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