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If NATO was about countries being subservient to the US, then the MAGA fashy types would be 100% in support of NATO.

NATO is an alliance and fashy types have a hard time grasping the idea of countries having partnerships that aren't a hierarchical master/servant style relationships. Since it's not a "do whatever the US tells you to do" imperialist style relationship, guys like Trump assume that it must mean the US is somehow subservient to NATO and therefore hate it. They can't understand there being any power structure that isn't hierarchical and therefore is a bad thing.

It's similar with Putin too. Except he assumes it's a hierarchical power structure where the US is the master and the other members are subservient. Tankies follow the same line of thinking.

Authoritarian type people simply cannot grasp non-hierarchical relationships so alliances between sovereign nations just don't make sense to them.