[mytailorisrich]

You'd be right if we were talking about an alliance but the situation in Europe is not an alliance, it is federalisation under the EU, which is progressing by moving into defence. This is what is going on. The writing on the wall here is that this is a step towards further loss of sovereignty and loss of strategic know-how, not an "alliance", similar the project of building France's next fighter jet 'together' with Spain and Germany (who have zero experience), which is dissolving French technology, industry, and sovereignty into the EU/Germany.