We do have an agreement with the NATO countriies.
And therein lies the root of the problem.
Making sure things are set up to run as smoothly as possible is a good idea, and insurance against getting caught with our britches down should the need ever arise. The more smoothly the NATO countries can function together, the less likely they will have to do so.
Function together? How? Why?
Europe has bestowed upon this planet socialism, marxism, nazism, fascism, communism, modern globalism and two world wars that 75 years later they are unable to fully end. And yet we STILL struggle to hitch our wagon to this cauldron of slaughter and anti-freedom. Europe is the land where serfs must be controlled when not used as pawns to shed blood.
Instead of trying to crawl back into the European womb, we should remember we were born to be different----born to be that shining city on a hill and the last best hope of all on Earth. We need to be Europe's counter-balance, not its willing accomplice. It's past time to cut the cord, and Ukraine is a perfect place to start.
Ukraine is not America's problem, not our step-child and her borders pose no geopolitical threat to us. Let Brussels figure out and fund the solution to their self-inflicted problem.
We either remember we are free and independent of Europe or we become them. We're thisclose to it.
We've a country to save, and it isn't Ukraine.