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As I said in the OP, our regions have many synergies and have taken common positions in several relevant areas since relations began. Also, a read through the actual treaty will answer your question about opposing each other on military action.

Please elaborate on the common positions and synergies part?

Also anyone else have thoughts?

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I think it's an interesting opportunity myself.  While our regions may be different in ways including military style, that doesn't mean we're complete polar opposites of each other.  I'm actually intrigued to see how a treaty with them will go, since it's something that will be beneficial for our region, as treaties normally are in some way or another.

For reference, I also support this treaty. Ainur has proven themselves to be quite fun culturally and their people have interacted well.
R/D is a small and rather annoying part of the deal and hardly what we should focus on.
We as a community can genuinely improve with them and be happier... Something I would so rarely say.
I am in support of this treaty and continued interactions with Ainur.

The defense portion is really the minimum of what you'd expect of any treaty: a commitment to defend and not bring harm to each others' established territories.

As a region though, I feel Ainur is one of the best regions we could establish treaty relations with. There are some imperialist regions that can't look past the defender aspect of a region or an ambassador, but Ainur is not one of them...from the time we met at the regional sovereignty conference I feel our relation has focused on the many commonalities we share, not the few that we don't. Since joining their region as an ambassador I have been welcomed and embraced in the same way we welcome and embrace people here. I attended their Winter Festival, which was loads of fun, and afterwards Aubrey joined up here and started one of the most active and successful topics here, Frostbite Tavern. The treaty negotiations took some time out of due consideration for our alignments, but the entire negotiation was done respectfully and I'm happy with what we produced.

At the end of the day, the greatest requirement for treaty partners is that they respect each other, and that is a requirement that cannot be enforced in any treaty. It has to be willingly offered, and Ainur has more than done that on their end. The fact of the matter is that it doesn't serve our region's best interests to interact only with other defender regions, and this is a wonderful opportunity to branch out culturally to regions of other alignments that respect our region for what it is. The alternative is to allow ourselves to be boxed in by R/D, something I believe very few people in the region would want or support.

The treaty was ratified by Ainur yesterday, and is now officially in effect.