bit too much enthusiasm on Troy’s face to match reality. we didn’t want to join. the current government didn’t promise joining during the elections. there was no referendum, and at no point during the past ten years would the join side have won if there was one.

we had to remove trade barriers to get in. we put those up because we didn’t want to sell weapons to countries systematically violating human rights on their own soil.

The U.S-part of it turned to shit incredibly quickly, but at least the rest of the Alliance is still mostly sane. Given that no one in the alliance can rely on the U.S any more, we’ll all just have to up our defenses collectively, and that way, NATO still sort of works out.

Ukraine and Russia should be in there somewhere. Nonetheless, you have captured the feeling of the current situation.

Easy solution - new defence pact without USA and invite everyone else the Trumpian USA stiffed on defence like Australia.

We (Australia) are already in Eurovision so a defence pact with Europe (and the UK lol) would make sense!