Comment: Russia may want, wish, desire, hope for NATO to break up, but NATO is dissolving on its own accord because its time is passee, and Europe is broke and can not pay for its defense.

Mattis - what else will a brass say? The so frugal Western military is waste galore, always wants more tanks, more ships, more fighters/bombers, more men, more money, and ...  more time. Nothing to brag about in 70 years - rout at Dien Bien Phu, in Saigon, 9/11, in Af-Pak, in Iraq, against Daesh where Russia/Iran had to come to rescue.

Yes, still keep NATO, nay increase its budget. Education, health, welfare be damned.