You do it because it allows your elites to dominate the economies of the countries you protect. If Russia takes them over, it would be in its interest to neutralize you as quick as possible, first by economic and then by military means.
Disband NATO now !
BTW, as I noticed you’re Canadian, you have no business dictating the affairs of American foreign policy. You literally have no skin in the game. I suggest you work on removing your Castroite Communist totalitarian faggot Turd Dough before you continue your ignorant attacks on American FReeper Conservatives.
Oh gee. NATO might have come about because of that small thing called the Second World War