On the national level, in Europe alone you had Franco’s Spain and Estado Novo’s Portugal as founding members of NATO. The Kemalist nationalists of Turkey soon joined it—and NATO accepted the nature of these regimes (and later the Greek junta of the colonels as well) in a way that the Warsaw Pact didn’t accept ideological dissent in its own ranks (as seen by its invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia).
And if you track the allegiance of individuals you can get people like Georgios Papadopoulos who were Nazi collaborators, to becoming allied with USA against the communists in the junta of the colonels in the 1960s-1970s. And Greek people most supportive of that junta, are now the same people that are anti-American, anti-EU and pro-Russia now...
There’s no change of ideologies in these people, they’re very consistent in their political positions, and their themes: nationalism, racism, militarism, religion—it’s just that the same nationalist-fascist ideology has been supported by different sides: The Axis (primary ideology) at first, NATO (secondarily) later on, Russia now...
In what sense do you see more nationlist facism in NATO then there was before WWII in the USA, UK and France?
On the national level, in Europe alone you had Franco’s Spain and Estado Novo’s Portugal as founding members of NATO. The Kemalist nationalists of Turkey soon joined it—and NATO accepted the nature of these regimes (and later the Greek junta of the colonels as well) in a way that the Warsaw Pact didn’t accept ideological dissent in its own ranks (as seen by its invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia).
And if you track the allegiance of individuals you can get people like Georgios Papadopoulos who were Nazi collaborators, to becoming allied with USA against the communists in the junta of the colonels in the 1960s-1970s. And Greek people most supportive of that junta, are now the same people that are anti-American, anti-EU and pro-Russia now...
There’s no change of ideologies in these people, they’re very consistent in their political positions, and their themes: nationalism, racism, militarism, religion—it’s just that the same nationalist-fascist ideology has been supported by different sides: The Axis (primary ideology) at first, NATO (secondarily) later on, Russia now...