:: NATO can’t afford to lose ::
Although I do not imply any mal-intent on your part, Ms Note, this is a position we have heard since the beginning of the UKR/RUS conflict.
It is simultaneously gaslighting by the neo-Con wing of US politics AND a truism, well spoken.
NATO would be diminished by a “loss” but that is only because they are protecting a non-member from the assumed “evil Soviet” enemy of the West.
It also is very much about a severe loss in FINANCIAL resources that exposes the evidence that since the end of Trump’s administration, Europe has returned to their slacker ways in NATO and are heavily dependent on us, the US Taxpayer, to fund their efforts.
NATO-Europe is once again not participating in the NATO agreement and the Biden administration is more than happy to pay for UKR to stop the “evil Soviet” hegemony.
NATO fighting over a non member can be construed as aggression. Regardless of who started it.