NATO Was Founded to Crush Communist, Socialist, and Anti-colonial Movements Worldwide

No nation could join NATO without privatizing its economy. In 1997, then Senator Joe Biden told Poland that it would have to privatize its large state-owned enterprises like banks, the energy sector, the state airline, the state copper producer, and the state telecommunications monopoly.

TIL

But I've been told that it is just a club of smol bean democratic countries who have voluntarily banded together to stand up to mean bullies

The Britishish Empire.