I have mixed feelings. We absolutely pushed then into this policy by using our military industrial complex as a means to exert out will through mutual defense. And it’s been overall good for all of us. We have a booming arms industry and Pax Americana and they haven’t dragged the entire planet into another war between next door neighbors.
The reality is our 20th century strategy is crumbling. Europe can no longer rely on American defense. From my American perspective an EU mutual defense pact may be wise. But if not, it’s time to arm like it’s about to be a world war, because Russia won’t stop until Spanish is written in Cyrillic.