Boys and girls, there is no Santa, NATO is an insurance racket, with Russia serving as the boogeyman you are supposed to fear. If you don't, you are a Russian troll.
As with any insurance, there are underwriters; in this case, it's the American taxpayers. When the sh*it hits the blades, it's the US Army plus a bunch of irrelevant metoos like Poland as decorations so the main peddler, the US swamp, can call it a "coalition".
The best proof that NATO is a swindle is the fact that the swindler, the US, moved its manufacturing base to the real enemy - communist China, a country that makes Russia look like Denmark - "democratically" speaking. You see, China has only one party, gulags, and an unsettled territorial claim. Yet, the swindler and stupid Western swindler's "allies" ship boatloads of money there - day after day.
As always, the shaft goes up the asses of the US taxpayers who are forced to spend trillions they don't have on the military swamp and almost as much as the rest of the world combined. Russia, btw, spends 10 times less.
To make things even worse, some sh*ithole like Moldova can join by filling out a piece of paper, buy a dozen ARs and get full protection that is just as good as any of the swindler's 50 states. In that sense, Moldova = Florida. No, I am not making it up. Actually, it's worse since the swindler's army is not allowed to protect his borders. Only those thousands of miles away.
To keep the racket going, the samp needs an enemy and wars. That's why the swindler has been at war for 92% of its existence. Notwithstanding, it's Russia, not China, that's a threat to your happy childhood because China is where the swindler's buddies make money.