NATO dismantled; the Organization of North American Nations formed

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pivotal · background, the millennial transition

When: background; the O.N.A.N. treaty period, parodied via the film's news-header montage
What: Gentle engineers "the gradual and subtle but inexorable disarmament and dissolution of NATO" (his own phrase, golfing with the Canadian P.M., 081), then pivots to a continental alliance. Mexico signs on for O.N.A.N.; Canada is coerced — Gentle threatens that unless the treaty is signed, NAFTA is null, the Manitoban therms (NATO ICBMs) stay put, and intracontinental pollution and waste disposal become each nation's "INTERESTS TO PURSUE TO THE BEST THEY SEE FIT." Canada "'nuck'les under." O.N.A.N. is penned into being.