Day: March 3, 2024

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established in 1949 during the period of mounting geopolitical tensions during the Cold War.

American entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk has asked why NATO still exists since 1991 — when the Warsaw Treaty Organization, which included the USSR, had already disintegrated.

Musk was responding to a post on social network X by billionaire David Sachs, who wrote of NATO’s “existential crisis” after the collapse of the USSR. Instead of disbanding, the North Atlantic Alliance has a new mission — expansion — Sachs wrote.

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A group of fishermen have discovered the wreckage of a possible “spy balloon” off the coast of Alaska and it has become the subject of an FBI investigation, CNN reported on Friday. The shooting down last year of an alleged Chinese spy balloon by the US triggered a major diplomatic incident between Washington and Beijing.

The fishermen brought the suspicious debris onto their boat and will hand it over to FBI agents when they return to port this weekend, the network reported, citing anonymous “sources familiar with the matter.”

Based on photographs shared with them by the crew, FBI agents determined that it was “similar enough in appearance to a foreign-government owned surveillance balloon that it warranted further investigation,” CNN stated.

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