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NATO acceptance of Western European countries in 1995 led Soviet Russia to set up a counter organization, The Warsaw Treaty Organization (or Warsaw Pact).  Common defense and the ongoing MAD strategy, and economic crisis led the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Treaty Organization’s to its demise. NATO’s transatlantic relations and prevention where key to the end of the Cold war and the beginning of a interlinking of United States and European policies, which still remains to this day.

NATO acceptance of Western European countries in 1995 led Soviet Russia to set up a counter organization, The Warsaw Treaty Organization (or Warsaw Pact).  Common defense and the ongoing MAD strategy, and economic crisis led the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Treaty Organization’s to its demise. NATO’s transatlantic relations and prevention where key to the end of the Cold war and the beginning of a interlinking of United States and European policies, which still remains to this day.

=== Kosovo ===

=== Kosovo ===

After the fall of the [[Soviet Union]] and the end of the [[Cold War]]. NATO had seemed to lose it purpose; it no longer had the threat of USSR. NATO began to shift its focus to from its original defense alliance to a more offensive mode. In 1999 the [[United States]] led its NATO on a bombing campaign to stop [[Yugoslav]] President Slobodan Milošević's ethic cleansing of the Albanian’s inside of [[Kosovo]]. Ironically, [[Turkey]] one of the leading forces on the NATO mission, was having similar problems inside its country with its treatment of its Kurdish population at the very same time. The mission in [[Kosovo]] did not go as well as planned. After the air strikes, havoc reigned over [[Kosovo]], abuses continued and human rights organizations listed abuses committed by the Alliance members during the campaign. In an attempt to solve the violence NATO countries and the [[UN]] took on a mission to stabilize and reconstruct the country which is currently ongoing.

After the fall of the [[Soviet Union]] and the end of the [[Cold War]]. NATO had seemed to lose it purpose; it no longer had the threat of USSR. NATO began to shift its focus to from its original defense alliance to a more offensive mode. In 1999 the [[United States]] led its NATO allys on a bombing campaign to stop [[Yugoslav]] President Slobodan Milošević's ethic cleansing of the Albanian’s inside of [[Kosovo]]. The mission in [[Kosovo]] did not go as well as planned. After the air strikes, havoc reigned over [[Kosovo]], abuses continued and human rights organizations listed abuses committed by the Alliance members during the campaign. In an attempt to solve the violence NATO countries and the [[UN]] took on a mission to stabilize and reconstruct the country. A mission which is currently ongoing.

=== Modern History ===

=== Modern History ===

After Kosovo, NATO’s ability to be an offensive organization was in question. Some called for the abolishment of the organization, stating that it had lost it original purpose.  

After Kosovo, NATO’s ability to be an offensive organization was in question. Some called for the abolishment of the organization, stating that it had lost it original purpose.