Specifically, NATO was created in 1947 allegedly to contain the expansion of [[single party state|single party]] leftwing Soviet [[Communism]]. But since the collapse of [[communism]] in Russia, NATO is globalism without a valid purpose. Unlike Germany which gained entrance two years after its founding, increasingly [[conservative]] Russia has been systematically denied membership in all European collective security arrangements. Soviet media often referred to NATO as the "Fourth Reich", a popular perception that was reborn in the post-Soviet era with the bad faith and [[duplicity]] exhibited by [[the West]] regarding security guarantees granted to the Russian Federation upon dissolution of the Soviet Union and NATO encroachment on Russian Federation borders. | Specifically, NATO was created in 1947 allegedly to contain the expansion of [[single party state|single party]] leftwing Soviet [[Communism]]. But since the collapse of [[communism]] in Russia, NATO is globalism without a valid purpose. Unlike Germany which gained entrance two years after its founding, increasingly [[conservative]] Russia has been systematically denied membership in all European collective security arrangements. Soviet media often referred to NATO as the "Fourth Reich", a popular perception that was reborn in the post-Soviet era with the bad faith and [[duplicity]] exhibited by [[the West]] regarding security guarantees granted to the Russian Federation upon dissolution of the Soviet Union and NATO encroachment on Russian Federation borders. |