[grania]

Then let those Eastern European nations get together themselves and set up a mutual defense pact without the rest of Europe and without the US. After two generations, and the time they've had since the Berlin Wall fell, they should've figured it out for themselves.

Hungary has. Poland has. You don't see anyone messing with them.

[Olog-hai]

Both of those are EU member states. Both are also very pro-EU military.

[ansel12]

LOL, you don’t get this at all do you?

Your simplistic view reveals ignorance of why NATO is necessary, and why those tiny nations are glad to be in NATO, and why we are glad to have them there.

They are in a defense Pact, ours, and we don’t want Russian forces reconquering those countries and moving their Armies into them and recreating what we all worked so hard, at such high cost, to defeat.