Hello Gentlemen. Your challenge today, should you choose to accept it, is to tell me a plausible way for NATO to develop close ties with Tito's Yugoslavia. While in OTL, many viewed it as a pro-Soviet puppet, this of course couldn't have been further from the truth.
What if NATO had instead realized the truth, and saw a potential ally in Yugoslavia and Tito, and strived to develop closer ties to them, perhaps even giving them military and economic aid to build them into an eastern bulwark against the Soviets?
Yugoslavia doesn't have to join NATO, as I think that is extraordinarily unlikely, but I could see it being an unofficial ally of NATO, especially given how hostile the Soviets were towards them most of the time.
How would this have effected the Cold War, and the future of Yugoslavia in the post-Cold War era?
This is of course after Tito's break with Stalin.