They can defend themselves the same way as if any other country attacked them.

NATO doesn’t protect you if you start an offensive war. It only protects you if you’ve been attacked first.

There’s no better example than the epstein-US-Iran war. Trump keeps whining that his “NATO allies” are not helping him. Iran right now can attack the US as much as it can, since the US started the war for no fucking reason.

Some individual countries that are part of NATO have helped the US, but that was independently of NATO.

You’re a 100% correct. You’re just getting downvoted because you claim to be “the polar opposite of a leftist”.

What expansion?

The latest new members of NATO after many years have applied because Russia invaded ukraine, a non-NATO country.

If there weren’t countries invading other ones, no one would need to join NATO, as it is a defensive alliance.

I believe it went over your head. This was a satire comment. It is made by OP. OP doesn’t believe in those words. Sarcasm can be used without writing “/s”.

If you criticism the Chinese government on a .ml instance, you will quickly get banned for “rule 2: xenophobia”.

Go to basically any comment section of a politics-related popular post on a .ml instance. I can almost guarantee that there will be some china/Russia/north Korea brainless take.