Hifaluting Western Protestations Nothing More Nor Less than a Paper Tiger (with the Possible Exception of the Aussies): In a Turn of the Bitterest Irony. the Nation Earnestly Desiring NATO Membership and Encouraged by One & All Along That Selfsame Path for So Very Long...Will, In Its Moment of Direst Need, Receive NO HELP WHATSOEVER From That Very Organisation (and Its Major Component Parts)

'So 'don't put your trust in fancy promises'.

See 'the Cunning Cat & His Company' (in Aesop's Fables, Golden Press/Western publishing, 1965). 

Or as *Aesop again might characterize it, a friend in need is a friend in deed.

See 'The Travellers and the Bear' (ibid).

Also, actions speak louder than words.

Again, see 'The Lions and the Hares', ibid.