The fact that we have trip-wire security guarantees with 28 nations, with such stalwarts as Albania, shows that NATO is simply security theater.
it also allows Europe to pretend it doesn’t need to spend any money on defense.
its a very dangerous arrangement.
NATO should have been wound-down in 1992, replacing it with bilateral agreements with Germany and England only.
And then there’s Turkey who are busy working on restoring their own caliphate.