With a POD of 1950, have NATO expand to include the majority, if not all, of Latin America, and a global western alliance is formed, and NATO's no longer the name.
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You'd have to drop the 'N' first of all![]()
NATO was intended very specifically to co-ordinate a quick response to a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. If the Russians are storming through the Fulda Gap, what exactly can Brazil or Mexico do?The problem is that it would compel the US to start wars to defend its Latin American allies. At the time the US did not really view Latin American states as equal allies, or even equal-ish allies like Western Europe, but rather as clients. For example, were Batista's Cuba part of such an alliance, the US would be compelled to declare war to overthrow Castro.
NATO was intended very specifically to co-ordinate a quick response to a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. If the Russians are storming through the Fulda Gap, what exactly can Brazil or Mexico do?
Brazil did send a rather sizable expeditionary force that fought in Europe, so I wouldn't say their commitment would be nonexistent. That said, other than Brazil and Mexico (and American-Mexican relations then were patchy at best), I don't see any real options that wouldn't threaten drawing NATO into a conflict in Latin America till after the Cold War is over.