As a US citizen I am happy to pay taxes to allow small democratic nations to defend themselves from large bully neighbors. All the better when the large bully

As a US citizen I am happy to pay taxes to allow small democratic nations to defend themselves from large bully neighbors. All the better when the large bully neighbors would happily do away with USA if they could. If small nations bolstering self defense and making treaties is viewed as threatening to much larger neighbors, then I'm very curious about what those large nations had planned for the smaller ones.