Add Oz who said politely 'no thanks'. Why the abandonment?...

Add Oz who said politely 'no thanks'. Why the abandonment? Perhaps these NATO member nations were already spreading themselves thin on the blind Zelensky support just in case an incident happens on their war ships?

What is interesting is that a simple strategy of "weakening or balkanising Russia" through the use of proxy Ukraine with the delaying tactic of minks1+2 hoodwinking Putin paid off initially. The weaponising of USD, consficating Russian sovereign assets in the West, destroying nordstream pipeline besides intimately providing military intelligence with some success like the sinking of Moskwa were much more clouded from a great plan to predicting a fluid reality. I can go on but clearly since WW2 did US military met her counterpart on an equal military footing. It exposed their own military industrial complex unable to sustain ammo supply to Ukr! Ditto NATO.

Then we have the Houthis making an effective counter balance to repel Zionist might through their vulnerable export/import route. 2 US battle group in the region and the mighty deterrence is now only a paper threat!

Others have already opined that the collective sanctions tactic on Russia are counter productive to the vision of BRICS+, etc.

The latest desperate EU attempt to make use of Russian Consficated assets is the camel that broke the back? I suspect so.

The signal is there that US hegemonic powers failed to take out Russia so maybe Washington will keep trying on another perceived for being Taiwan. Ukr has provided a roadmap and take a guess who are the indirect countries required to do the heavy lifting in the region. Just replace natural gas with Iron ore. There whose toes are being hammered slowly?