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NATO is the organization set up by the US to look after its interests in Europe. It was Truman's goal that with a sufficiently powerful defensive alliance there would be no such attack in the first place.

https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/history_p...

> Do I want an attack against Finland to be considered an attack against the US?

Lots of people in 1939 said that they didn't want to go to war over Czechslovakia. But of course, once a dictator has successfully annexed one territory without a fight, what does he do next? Annex another one.

The US is arming the fighting in Ukraine so it does not have to fight Russia in Poland.