Everyone miss the huge strategic change in Europe.
If Russia finish Ukriane , and integrate it , then will be the shock.
In that case the NATO is toast, have no more power than the Warsaw pact in 2022 .
The Russian political goal is not to occupy Ukraine, but to get rid of foreign forces from CE/EE, and make sure no one in her surrounding could do again that happens now with all of this sanctions.
BEFORE the Ukrainan invasion the request about Russia security concerns was addressed to the USA, AFTER the invasion it will be addressed to the individual European states.
I know lot of guy outside of Europe, and have no clue about the cultural memory, but trust me, if Russia will ask the Slovakians about " Please, guarantee your neutrality e, and that you won't sanction us" then do you think the Slovakians will refuse this request ?
I mean, of course, the USA is happy to send bombers , missiles and so on, and help to level Bratislava with few 10 000 civilian casualities, but the SLOVAKIANS KNOW IT.
First rule of the war as an average person is you don't want it.
And , please consider, if the SLovakians has to choice to use molotov coctails on Russian tanks, OR on the Slovakian goverment to force them to accept the Russian conditions and avoid the war, what do you think, which option will be prefered?
This is the reason why Lukasenko is in power, could make independent presentations that showing the future state of Ukraine.
Cooperate, and nothing will change, deny our request , and you will have war. OF course the USA happy to help, but even if the Slovakians won and evict the Russians they still have a destroyed country, economy and hectares of new cemeteries .
So, these are the end days of the USA centric world. The NATO could stay, but its importance will be no more than the European Agency for Railways.