That's why trump is bailing Putin out. Putin gets to keep all the land he stole. Trump steals Ukraine's minerals and gets revenge on Zelensky because he wouldn't lie and say they were investigating Hunter Biden. Trump cares more about revenge than anything else.
Not NATO itself, but balance of power and interests between Russia/USA, Warsaw Pact/NATO.
What about Westphalian peace 1648-1789 and Vienna peace 1816-1914?
When the peace is mutually profitable (and based on the conceptions of equal rights and equal safety) - all sides benefits from it.
Russians didn't "gone", as well in the Army of North during American Civil war, not everyone were Blacks. American civil war was mostly fought by White Americans from both sides, and Ukrainian conflict (in fact "Russian civil war") is fought mostly by Russians from both sides. In fact even Ukrainian minister of Defense is ethnic Russian born in Russia with no Ukrainian roots or relatives.
And Warsaw Pact kept NATO from trying anything stupid, like messing in Hungarian and Czechoslovakian events.
I know about them.
No problem. We'll see how hard they'll work and how fiercely fight to leave EU and NATO after fall of the USA.
We'll see.
On the contrary, it worked at least twice in the Russian history.
