“Those neighbors should be able to to defend themselves.They are no longer bo.bed flat smoldering ruins that they were at the end of WW2. Let them defend themselves.”
So, as an analogy, you’d be perfectly happy and content if some gangbangers, or BLM, or Antifa types attacked and broke into your home, and no one came to you aid, or provided you with assistance.
I mean, after all, you have a baseball bat, or maybe even a single-shot .22. Because if you want or expect help, you are a hypocrite.
I would not expect the Dallas police to keep a rapid reaction force in Houston.
Houston, where I live, should take care of its own crime.
Yet, NATO is a treaty that analogously puts the DPD on Houston streets.
Let Houston deal with its own gang bangers.