True but I don't see them being able to project power much beyond their borders. Even the big dogs of France, UK and Germany seem about half impotent anymore.
They may send a token force, but it will be up to our military, civilians, and maybe Canada to defend the USA.
NATO was pretty much set up to defend against the Soviet invasion.
I really do not think any country on the Earth (with the possible exception of China) has the sheer volume of humanity to hold back the Russian Horde in conventional warfare, and that because the Chinese simply have more men to use as canon fodder. At some point you run out of attackers or ammo and people to fire it at them. Technology is a force multiplier, and what NATO relies on, but the industrial base of WWII is gone, used for Hollywood sets, or enviro-ed out of existence with the mines flooded or filled in. Even with all the alleged improvements of automation since, merely getting everything set up and good to go would take prohibitively long--and the more of a hand the government had in it, the less likely plans and specs would be done before the end of the conflict, because the weapons were not there.
China vs Russia, and the Arctic ocean and Pacific would turn pink with blood, but for now, I see the Chinese making inroads industrially, in developing and exploiting resources from elsewhere, and expanding hegemony thus. The Russians not so much, and they would run out of cannon fodder first. Neither has a social structure which prizes individual initiative, which has been the edge Americans have held over more totalitarian cultures, on the battlefield, and in business, but I see that being hammered out of the younger generations, too, and that is one of the paralyzing effects of all the DEI and 'hate crime' crap that will cost someone a job far faster than gross incompetence.
There is much to be done, but it will require a sea change in what media produce, what media is heeded, the absence of censorship, and a complete revamping of the educational system from K through PhD and beyond.
