At this point, I don't think anyone in NATO thinks the US will aid them if anything were to happen so the US is kinda out of NATO anyway (at least until Trump/MAGA is gone).
If a bridge gets built then destroyed, built then destroyed, built then destroyed and so on, people will stop using it. They'll also stop trusting the bridge builder.
There are glimmers of JR in Gaddis' earlier work The Recognitions, specifically during the party scenes where voices overlap. But of course because the rest of the book is written in a "usual manner", you can recognise who's saying what quite easily.
See:
>NATO invoked Article 5 in response to Al Qaeda's terrorist attacks against the United States on 11 September 2001
https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/introduction-to-nato/coll...
Now take a look at the European countries who helped the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
Then scroll down to "Dead". Those Europeans died for the United States.
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