Thinking this is more bad history. I was thinking maybe it was a really old map, which would explain why Korea, etc. are still colored red. But if you look closely Germany is unified; there's no west and east germany. Plus Greece is green and Turkey is red, even though they joined NATO at the same time (1952). So I doubt this map is from a textbook or anything, someone probably made it in like 5 minutes just to illustrate a quick point.
The US stationed nuclear missiles in Turkey during the Cold War, to which the USSR and Cuba responded. I'm not an expert on Turkey but I'm pretty sure they've always been a pretty staunch NATO ally. At least until recently, with Russia selling aircraft to Turkey I think might complicate that relationship
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Thinking this is more bad history. I was thinking maybe it was a really old map, which would explain why Korea, etc. are still colored red. But if you look closely Germany is unified; there's no west and east germany. Plus Greece is green and Turkey is red, even though they joined NATO at the same time (1952). So I doubt this map is from a textbook or anything, someone probably made it in like 5 minutes just to illustrate a quick point.
It looks like recent borders. USSR is split up, looks like Yugoslavia doesn't exist, and unified Germany.
The US stationed nuclear missiles in Turkey during the Cold War, to which the USSR and Cuba responded. I'm not an expert on Turkey but I'm pretty sure they've always been a pretty staunch NATO ally. At least until recently, with Russia selling aircraft to Turkey I think might complicate that relationship
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Also I'm pretty sure Sweden should be a third world country
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