• • milan •
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    -151 year ago

    As long as an attack happens on NATO territory, it’s considered an act of war. Even if the NATO country is the aggressor. Ideally the aggressing country would be suspended before they could invoke article 5.

        • takeda
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          21 year ago

          PP in all examples intermixes NATO with US military.

          In its history NATO article 5 was invoked only once.

          • • milan •
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            11 year ago

            That doesn’t dispute my comment though? If Poland were to attack Belarus and Belarus retaliated with an attack on Polish soil, they could absolutely invoke article 5.

    • SeaJ
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      -11 year ago

      Unless there is a cover up like happened with those Russian missiles that hit Poland.

    • @[email protected]
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      -61 year ago

      Imagine how dangerous it would be if NATO was, instead of a defensive pact, a transnational nuclear military helmed by the world’s foremost genocidal empire that marches across Europe via propaganda and coup d’etats towards it’s ultimate goal of encircling Russia and China. What a cluster fuck that would be? In that reality, if a member state launched a war of aggression NATO would probably support it and continue escalation.

      Luckily, we know NATO is a defensive force because it didn’t launch multiple wars of aggression, drop depleted uranium on civilians, and is democratically accountable.