“On their own” is a hyperbolization on my part. But compare how half of Europe scrambled their jets along with US to shoot couple hundred Shaheds from Iran coming to Israel, to Dutch generously deciding to send couple F-35’s to protect actual NATO member after 3 years of biggest war in Europe since WW2 raging just next door, and to that add in US still planning to withdraw troops from Europe.
I just call that same thing will happen when article 5 gets invoked again - instead of “attack on one is attack on all” there will be couple of actually responsible allies helping and everyone else dragging their tails with stuff like “we’ll go in if everyone else goes in” or whatever.
“On their own” is a hyperbolization on my part. But compare how half of Europe scrambled their jets along with US to shoot couple hundred Shaheds from Iran coming to Israel, to Dutch generously deciding to send couple F-35’s to protect actual NATO member after 3 years of biggest war in Europe since WW2 raging just next door, and to that add in US still planning to withdraw troops from Europe.
I just call that same thing will happen when article 5 gets invoked again - instead of “attack on one is attack on all” there will be couple of actually responsible allies helping and everyone else dragging their tails with stuff like “we’ll go in if everyone else goes in” or whatever.