The US should tell all allies we will withdraw from NATO agreements with any nation that does not allow free speech as a guaranteed right, not only in law but in deed. Some have laws like that, but don’t allow it in practice.
We talk about the “Free” west, well, much of the west is no longer free.
Involved in Ukraine, keeping your shipping lanes open through red sea etc. Kosovo since first Iraq war…which BTW was mostly Kuwait oil was going to Europe. And then strikes against Libya etc. That was on French behalf.