According to several Western European researchers, the operation involved the use of assassination, psychological warfare, and false flag operations to delegitimize left-wing parties in Western European countries and to support anti-communist militias and right-wing terrorism who tortured communists and assassinated them, such as Mozambican resistance leader Eduardo Mondlane in 1969.[5][6][7][8][a] The United States Department of State rejected the view that they supported terrorists and maintains that the operation served only to resist a potential invasion of Western European countries by the Soviet Union.[9]

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

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        Buts that’s never been part of what NATO is. It’s always been a security alliance first and foremost with it’s primary focus being on combatting the soviet union and it’s allies in Europe for a large portion of it’s existence.

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          It’s always been a part of the concept of nato, security/mutual aid. But it’s incredibly corrupt

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            Nato has never done any of what I would call mutual aid. Done lots of security work and collaboration but that isn’t mutual aid, that’s a defensive alliance between nation states.

            Again the sole purpose of NATO upon it’s founding was a military alliance against the soviet union and it has never really grown past this role even after the collapse of the union.