NATO ally
Atlantic pact nation
A NATO ally is a member nation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, bound by collective defense agreements with other members.
The term appears frequently in news and political discourse: Germany is a NATO ally, We can't abandon our NATO allies.
The designation carries weight because an attack on one ally obligates all others to respond.
- defense pactAgreement for mutual military protection
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- North AtlanticOcean basin, northwestern
- defenseProtection against harm
- memberOne who belongs
member state · military · Brussels · partnership · collective · collective security · mutual defense · security · troops · boots on the ground · bases · summit · solidarity · transatlantic · coalition · peacekeeping · joint · unified
- Eastern EuropePoland, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria
- GermanyBerlin, Munich, Hamburg, Germany, German
- Italian RepublicChristian Democrats, coalition governments, coalition government, coalition politics, political coalitions
geopolitical adversarial relationship
NATO allyRussia
Eurasian federation, largest country
Soviet Union · China · Iran · North Korea · rogue state