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Originally Posted by Pierre
You do know that other NATO members can protect/come to the aid of other NATO members, without the need of the USA to be involved, if they decide not to.
France and the U.K. have independent nuclear capability, that alone should still deter anyone attacking NATO, whether the US is onside or not.
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Only the USA has nuclear umbrella treaties with other states. France has recently suggested it could do so, providing its arsenal as a nuclear umbrella for Nato-sans-USA, on the assumption that US intervention can’t be guaranteed, but has put nothing on paper. At present neither France nor the UK has any treaty obligation to respond to a nuclear attack on a third country with its own nuclear weapons, even under NATO art.5.