>>520560795
I will tell you a secret.
Most countries who have past-history in "we wuz kings" and are located close to the Russian border - are not NATO allies. Never were NATO allies, and never will be NATO allies.
The main reason they joined NATO was because they saw NATO as a useful tool to maximize gains in their own personal foreign policy. NATO in their perspective is purely a utilitarian asset, and has nothing to do with stuff like "shared values", or "European dream", or "democratic values".
This is why some academics say that NATO expansion eastward was a huge mistake. They got baited into serving someone else's interests under the guise of serving western interests.