If Putin attacked a NATO country, would you support the US sending troops

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33. Sorry Bill, gotta disagree

Keeping a blind commitment to an agreement that has no reason for existence just seems a little short sighted. Back when Soviet Russia was seen as a scourge on the world, it might have been justified. Not sure I buy that viewpoint. Remember when Soviet Russia crashed and burned? I don't think they were ever the threat that Washington consensus made them out to be. Almost everyone in the halls of power here were shocked.

I don't think it's a matter of keeping our commitments so much as were those commitments honest and justified.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union we, the US, NATO, and the EU have done everything we promised not to do to assure the re-unification of Germany and assure Russia that we inclusively were not a threat.
Admit it, Russia has every reason to consider our collective actions as a challenge to their ability to deal with the world as an equal member without threat of isolation or coercion against their own interests.
Remember all of the US actions in South and Central America because their governments were acting in their own self interest? We were sold the idea that it it was a grand communist plot to expand their influence around the globe. Could it be, and I know it can be tough to remember, anyone considering that that just wasn't true and those nations just supported governments that would give everybody a chance and the opportunity to do better?
I've said enough, it's Saturday night and I have a beer to finish.