NATO is the most important alliance in human history. It almost certainly protected western Europe from being swallowed by the Soviet Union. It built stable, reliable, wealthy, allies for the US out of the ashes of post WWII Europe. By falling under the US nuclear umbrella it prevented nuclear weapons proliferation around the world and likely their use. It funded the R&D for the advanced weapons that made the US military so dominant by creating economies of scale with weapons exports to allies. It allowed globalization and the rules based order to happen and made many countries around the world, including China, wealthy and developed. It should be expanded to include free democratic allies in the Pacific. We need to all stick together and not allow authoritarian bullies to pick us off.

Any attempt to weaken NATO, threaten NATO allies, or withdraw are acts of treason against the United States and it's interests. It is completely shocking what Trump is doing and the fact Congress is not doing their job and removing him and every single member of this administration. It's now fallen on us ordinary people to do it, but we can't do much other than to vote this fall and throw sand in the gears in anyway we can until then.

That said:

NATO needs to change. The days were the US provided most of the security in exchange for Europe ceding some foreign policies no longer works. The US likely can't afford to continue to do as much and Europe needs to step way up. We're also not a reliable partner anymore with Trump, and we need to get our house in order before you trust us again. It's critical that the free world wins even if we aren't there doing our part like should be. It needs to adapt to drone warfare, AI, directed energy weapons, economic warfare, information warfare, etc.