I mean… One single country being missing from a defensive pact shouldn’t cripple the defensive pact. So that’s how it always should have been.
You are correct, but it is a challenge to get the European countries to cooperate. I’m glad that they have filled the gaps this quickly.
I’m not sure about other countries but Sweden has been involved in several big weapon deals with other European countries lately, buying frigates from France and selling airplanes to Ukraine and submarines to Poland.
Greatest self-own in history by the US.
Give it another 24 hours, they’ll cook up a new one.
They could’ve had a slow, dignified decline of their power and status over 50 years or so. Instead they chose to tear it down themselves, in not just stupid but embarrassing ways.