Given both current political sentiment in Europe on the eastern shores of the Oder-Neisse line and historical experience, this isn’t even an option.
Personally, I suggest you all should step back a second. Diplomacy still is a virtue, even in a world where manly handshakes and hard-core populism seem to replace subtleties.
NATO members are not just defined by and valued because of their military. Even if the current commander in chief of the largest member doesn’t publicly acknowledge this: NATO was and is, foremost, a community of values. This is the current battleground, and the struggle is within.
