We didn't seem to think so when we, for the only time in its history, invoked Article 5 and NATO responded.
I dunno. Maybe.
I'm of the view that today Europe is capable of paying for its own security. Heck, we're paying two thirds of the NATO budget, aren't we? Or something like that.
Leave Europe to its own devices, I say. It's possible they'll pull back from all of the Russia confrontation, too.
Russia threatens none of our vital interestshere in America. None. Really, Russia is being labeled a desrtabilizer in the region for nothing other than protecting its own borders.
It's Europe's problem, not ours.