What if Russian missiles strike an embassy?

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Especially a country that is part of NATO.

They have come too close for comfort:
Russian missile explodes close to Romanian embassy in Kyiv

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3589951-russian-missile-explodes-close-to-romanian-embassy-in-kyiv.html


And they damaged the German visa office as well as offices of the EU Advisory Mission:
Russia crosses new “red line” by attacking foreign diplomatic missions - MFA Ukraine

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3591032-russia-crosses-new-red-line-by-attacking-foreign-diplomatic-missions-mfa-ukraine.html


Embassies are not sovereign but are considered inviolable as stated in one of the links. Could a NATO country or any country for that matter, consider a missile strike by Russia a hostile attack?

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1. This should be hammered relentlessly in the UN General Assembly

Unless embassies are off-limits, the UN may as well call it quits.

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2. +1000

Completely agree!

[TheRealNorth]

3. Technically, I think it would be counted as an attack on NATO

But there has been precedence in the past for not going to war over these "accidents" ( in 1999, we accidentally hit the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, killing 3 people).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bombing_of_the_Chinese_embassy_in_Belgrade

[Tetrachloride]

4. To take to an extreme, essentially everything Dems do is an

act of War, according to Trump. Act of war is what we say it is. If a country says that's an act of war, its their choice of words.

In practicality, these days, what (Pootie) does -- he's a war criminal. Of course what he does is an act of war. The response is up to Nato and or that country.

[DFW]

5. If they do, they'll apologize and be a lot more careful and try to paper it over

Just like we did in 1999 when our bombing or the Serbian capital, Beograd, hit the Chinese embassy by accident.

[Gore1FL]

6. I doubt it would be pushed.

On May 7. 1999, the US bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.