NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (French: French: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN) is a military alliance formed in 1949. It's headquaters are in Brussels, Belgium - they were chiefly formed to defend the Western world against the Soviet Union and other Reds, a feat they had to finally undertake when the Third World War broke out in 1990.
During the Third World War, NATO and other countries fighting against the communists, but not being NATO members - such as Mauritania or Japan - were collectively also known as The Allies. Ultimately, NATO and it's allies emerged victorious from the war in 1991.
==History==
===Cold War===
Preceeded by a short-lived organization known as the Western Union, NATO was established in the aftermath of World War II to prevent possible attacks by the Soviet Union. It's founding members were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States. On 18 February 1952, Greece and Turkey became members of NATO. In 1955, so did Germany, which back then was divided into two countries - West Germany and communist East Germany.
Spain joined NATO in 1982; previously, Francoist Spain's relationships with NATO were rather strained, as despite being an enemy of communism, the dictator was an ally of the Axis Powers during the Third World War.
===Third World War===
At the time of the Third World War, NATO was composed of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, now unified Germany, Greece, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States. During the Third World War in 1991, Romania joined NATO.
NATO led a successful war against the Comintern - while initially suprised by their attacks, they managed to push back the Reds into the Soviet Union, and eventually defeat them, with Dmitry Yazov signing the Soviet declaration of surrender in February 1991, and Aleksander Vitalevich Rukov perishing several hours after it's declaration, killed by Nicolas Alceste, a French NATO operative.
==Description==
thumb|250px|Signing of NATO membership invitation to West Germany, 1954The greatest strenght of NATO was the utilization of superior technology and unlimited funding to out-smart and out-produce the simple-minded, brutalistic Reds, posessing better quality military hardware and technology. For example, while many Communist bases were delapitated, rusty and brutalist in their nature, NATO bases were far more shiny, clean and bureaucratic in their look. European NATO members enjoyed elegance as well, opting for exquisite and imporant base locations, such as the castle of Vlad Tepes.
During the Cold War, several NATO countries - such as the United States - kept a close eye on rooting out communism and potential red spies out of their populace, however in some of them, especially in Western European states never touched by communism, pro-communist stances begun to rise; one of the results of them were the summer 1968 riots in France, led by anarchists, communists and students against the so-called American imperialism, capitalism and consumerism.
The Third World War became a turning point in the world of communism in Europe; many of the spoiled youths, students, politiians and hooligan types which were supporting it rejected the ideology; communism never became popular in Europe again, being relegated to the ideology of socially inept youth no one took seriously, not unlike Nazism.
NATO had many sympathizers across the globe, even in non-member countries, who were willing to snitch on any suspicious Communist activity, including the likes of Doctor Mussahad.
==Military==
thumb|250px|NATO military parade in 11 June 1988NATO ground forces were composed of various types of infantry trained in it's member states. NATO also utilized several autonomous killer robots in it's arsenal, defending their bases via Turrets and Rocket Turrets, and most importantly - developing and field-testing the Canada-produced Paladin programme.
By 1991, the greatest enforcer and soldier in all of NATO was Gregor Autsmanndorf, an Austrian politician-turned-soldier, and NATO's first every cyborg; unfortunately, his desecrated body would then be salvaged and utilized in the mutation of Wojciech Jaruzelski.
NATO was not above utilizing it's agents, such as Nicolas Alceste or Dresden to destroy the Soviet plans from the inside via covert operations; these operations alone caused catastrophic losses in Chinese nuclear arsenal.
==Trivia==
*In 2020 during the very early development of the game, NATO - then called the European Union - was meant to be the twist villain faction. They were supposed to be using the war for their own benefit, at first pretending to be on USA's side, only to then reveal themselves as supervillains that plan on controlling the world utilizing a giant Hadron Collider, fighting both the USA and the Soviets. The textures of flags - that still show the EU flag hanging in a Nazi banner-like way - are a remnant of this era.
**This faction went so far in programming as having enemies written for it - namely, blue-uniformed, black-beret wearing soldiers that carried P90's and spoke German and British English.
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