The Utility of Europe in Geopolitics

Ukraine is de facto nato territory. If the russians go crazy hypothetically and launch, you know deploy nuclear i mean launch a nuclear strike on ukraine somewhere then there will most likely be a retaliation from the us which means from nato and it will happen from european territory. western europe is a huge buffer zone for america It is something that prevents the rRussians from advancing westwards That is the real utility of europe for the Americans so if there is a nuclear war to be fought they will They will launch the nuclear strikes from europe itself so that any response will Hit europe and not the us Okay, so that's the utility