Yes. NATO started as an alliance with an existential purpose, meaning that each and every member felt that an attack on any of them would threaten their very ex

Yes. NATO started as an alliance with an existential purpose, meaning that each and every member felt that an attack on any of them would threaten their very existence. Its expansion after the fall of the Soviet Union was paradoxical, because the threat was vastly reduced. And now we have a situation where a Russian attack on, say, North Macedonia would immediately trigger World War. I don't see how that is beneficial to anyone except of course people from countries such as these. But it's unclear that we should risk world stability for the sake of the safety of ex-Soviet republics.