Yup. Promises and talking big works up until someone calls the bluff. NATO in a certain way is based on that as well. If it fails a single test regarding artic

Yup. Promises and talking big works up until someone calls the bluff. NATO in a certain way is based on that as well. If it fails a single test regarding article 5 after someone challenges it, it becomes instantly worthless. The danger as I see it currently is that the West is tired of war and it’s an opportunity for Putin to challenge NATO. Attack a small village in a Baltic state. Are Americans and Germans and the British going to risk their lives for a small village in a Baltic country? I hope they would, but I realistically don’t see it. And that one non-response would make NATO worth less than the paper the agreement was printed on.