[I]f you look at the formation of NATO, first of all, NATO was explicitly designed as an anticommunist alliance, much like the Fascist project emerged explicitly as an anticommunist project, and it began with the rehabilitation […] of various unsavory forces in Europe, including figures like the [para]fascist António Salazar, the dictator of Portugal, who was one of the founding of NATO, right?

And then Amílcar Cabral, who was leading revolutionary struggle in Guinea‐Bissau and other places, wrote that they would find weapons of war from Portugal, from Germany, from Spain, from across the NATO bloc. So there was an implicit, already then, an implicit understanding that NATO is an extension of the colonial project, and a kind of collectivization of the colonial project.

Events that happened today (August 6):

1944: The Axis continued brutally suppressing the Warsaw Uprising; the Gestapo, fearing of another uprising, ordered a round‐up of all able‐bodied young men in Kraków.
1945: The Empire of Japan was devastated when the United States B‐29 Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb ‘Little Boy’ on Hiroshima, massacring approximately 70,000 people (mostly civilians) instantly, and some tens of thousands died in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
2001: Wilhelm Mohnke, Axis general, finally perished.