Thank you
People keep associating nato to Soviets. But Russia still aspires to having the same goal. Call them soviets or russia. NATO is still needed , end of story
NATO is about much more than the USSR. It’s about more than Russia, for that matter. In the longer run, NATO’s greater purpose is to keep Europe from swerving into the path of the early 1900’s, but this time with nukes. For that, the US needs to be the single biggest player. Russia may or may not be part of the trouble, in a generation or so, but the odds and history are favorable that it will be somehow involved.