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NATO is worthless in that its existence permits EU nations to avoid spending on their own security and instead foisting the expense onto the backs of American taxpayers, all while implementing expensive goodies that make our leftists drool with envy.

NATO has outlived its usefulness. Russia's main power now is economic. It's military is weak, but backed with only the threat of nuclear terror. The U.S. by itself can counter that threat, as Trump obviously did with Ukraine. So, Russia is nothing more than a neighborhood bully.

A more modern solution would be to create a new alliance of all of Russia's neighbors who want to join, who promise to attack Russia if it commits aggression against any of them, backed by the promise of U.S. nuclear deterrence. So, start with Poland, the Baltic states, and add in Ukraine, Georgia, Finland and Japan. That would keep Putin and other revanchist Russians in check because they know they would lose in a confrontation. In the present situation, no nation bordering Russia should be denied a nuclear deterrent to check Russia either.