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Civics 101

What is NATO?

Civics 101

NHPR

Education, History, Supreme Court, American History, Elections, Democracy, Society & Culture, Government, Civics, Politics, Social Studies

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

How does a security alliance between dozens of countries with different governments, interests, and military power, even work? And why does NATO exist in the first place?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Every time in a movie that I see groups put aside differences to just all commit to the same goal

0:08.0

Mm-hmm. It is truly heartwarming for me like it does something

0:12.7

Chemical in my brain like like what kind of scene like in Lord of the Rings

0:18.6

Don't you do it? I'm sorry everyone out there

0:22.7

I I don't like Lord of the Rings and maybe this is gonna end my career at civics one one

0:26.7

But I just don't like those movies all of the good and decent creatures of the world

0:32.2

Banding together to fight a singular evil including trees that would mean the destruction

0:37.5

Yeah of life you like that part when everybody comes together from all these different places to battle this big evil force

0:44.0

And then go back to their own lands to probably fight each other in another 50 years

0:48.1

Well including ghosts

0:50.1

Including ghosts that come out of a cave. Yeah, I like it all

0:57.6

Because guess what the epic gathering of armies from across lands is not just a fantasy

1:04.6

In fact the United States is one of 30 countries that have all sworn to stand together in the face of an attack and an

1:12.3

Intergovernmental Security Alliance stretching from North America to Europe

1:15.9

You're listening to civics 101. I'm Nick Capodice. I'm Hannah McCarthy and today

1:22.6

We are going to talk about one of the most powerful defensive alliances in the world the North Atlantic

1:29.7

Traiti organization more powerful than ghosts in a cave

1:33.9

I'm not even convinced you've seen

1:36.9

Those kings in the hole in the cave and they come in. He's like, please Joe K. Fine

1:41.6

And they just kill everyone you bow to no one

1:47.0

We are moving into an era in which back physical force we've got the Paul over our work

1:52.3

They know it kept the peace of Europe and the Atlantic through 12 dangerous years like these have always kept NATO forces

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