Good riddance, De Gaulle was always right about americans, we might finally be able to get out and build our own stuff instead of being a bully's bitch forever. Given the current situation and trends I don't expect there will be anything good to expect from the US for a while.
Yes I am not sure people really have a grasp of what NATO is.
NATO is just a military fair where Denmark, Belgium or Greece get scammed and order a dozen F35. It is gonna take a lot of hacking to have them attack their master, but John Conor did it in Terminator 2 so there is hope.
And also a lot of people get some cushy jobs and contract there. They sometimes produce funny videos and documents like [0]
The idea that you can takeover NATO without the US and repurpose it to fight a war is nonsense.
This idea has probably been put in people head by having Mark Rutte, an aspiring pianist who worked in HR at Unilever, talking nonsense on TV all the time.