Military alliances usually result as a reaction to the ambitions of neighbors... think of the alliances formed against Bonaparte. Since the fall of the USSR I’ve seen no coherent rationale to justify maintaining an alliance against the Russian Federation.... except those normal precautions states take in relation to each other. Certainly nothing that justifies a wealth destroying continental alliance.
The continental alliance was not “wealth destroying”, lol.
@1% of gdp defense expenditures were the norm. Much to Trumps disgust. Until Ukraine.
Right, which is why Finland joined NATO, realizing that its neutrality agreements with Russia were not worth the paper they were written on.
List of treaties Putin violated by invading Ukraine:
UN Charter 1945
Nuclear NPT 1970
Helsinki Accords 1975
Belovezha Accords 91–92
Budapest Memo 94
Black Sea Fleet Treaty 97
Friendship Treaty 98
Treaty on Azov Sea & Kerch Strait 03 Border treaty 03
Karkiv pact 10
Putin even broke a treaty he personally signed with Ukraine, the 2003 “Treaty Between the Russian Federation and Ukraine on the Russian–Ukrainian State Border”. It set Ukraine’s borders as they were in 1991 & was lodged with the UN.