What is Article 5 of the NATO treaty?

[orangecrush]

Russian reportedly struck Poland, a NATO member, on Tuesday, setting off a frenzy over the Western alliance’s mutual defense mechanism known as Article 5.

Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, NATO’s founding document, says that any attack on a NATO member in Europe or North America “shall be considered an attack against them all.”


Once a member invokes the principle of collective self-defense under the treaty, NATO can come to its defense with “such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.”

But that doesn’t mean any attack on a NATO member automatically triggers a state of war.

“It’s not like a trigger mechanism. It doesn’t mean that tomorrow every single country in NATO responds with a full military invasion of Russia,” Joel Rubin, a former deputy assistant secretary of State, said.

The diplomatic nature of an Article 5 invocation is by design. It allows the alliance the necessary pause and diplomatic toolkit to respond to an aggression on its own terms.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/3736968-what-is-article-5-of-the-nato-treaty/

[msongs]

1. it allows no nothings at msnbc to launch a nuclear war for ratings purposes? nt

[orangecrush]

5. With all respect

Not sure I understand your post.

[ruet]

7. ...

[orangecrush]

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[iemanja]

22. I think they mean know-nothings

[Tickle]

2. I'm concerned

I don't know the difference between article 4 and article 5 I just can't see anything positive coming out of this this attack or accident.

[orangecrush]

6. I don't believe it was an accident

It was a middle finger to NATO.

[Amishman]

12. agreed, was also quite close to a major power line

[pwb]

3. Lets give Poland the lead on this eh?

We are there if they need help. More The Hill crap IMO.

[orangecrush]

4. The article emphasizes

That all options are open.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

8. It is not yet clear what the truth of the situation is with this missile.

Ukraine Weapons Tracker--an outstanding resource throughout this conflict--has some evidence to suggest that the missile may have come from a Ukrainian-based defensive S-300 surface-to-air missile.

We need to keep our heads cool.

[orangecrush]

13. They are keeping cool heads

Article 5 gives room for diplomacy.


We don't have all the facts

But I doubt this was an accident.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

14. I'm as anti-Putin as they come, but the idea that Russia would deliberately target a field in Poland

makes no strategic sense to me.

An errant missile I could believe. Same with a damaged or deflected missile. Or a defensive missile that crashed to earth over the border.

A deliberate strike on a target of no strategic value--but one with huge risks for Putin--doesn't calculate as a high probability to me.

We will see.

[orangecrush]

16. That we shall.

[Emrys]

15. Ukraine Weapons Tracker is one of many "open source intelligence" Twitter feeds and websites,

quite a number are reputable, all are capable of making mistakes, and the best own up whenever they do.

Ukraine Weapons Tracker felt it had identified missile wreckage from one photo which might or might not suggest it was launched by Ukraine. It did follow up that tweet by pointing out there might be other wreckage from the scene and it was too early to say what else might have struck the site.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

17. Quite correct. Nothing is conclusive here.

It is incumbent to find out the truth before we release the dogs of war.

Fortunately we are in good hands with Joe Biden as commander-in-chief.

[orangecrush]

18. Sorry, I've swallowed

Far too many lysergics in my life, and couldn't resist...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. That's cruel. Where are the defensive lasers?

Article 5 of NATO states that the next person who posts an OP about traitortrump's rant shall be force-fed sardines and cotton candy until there shall be at least one projectile emission from each end of said person.

Or so I've been told.

[orangecrush]

20. ROTF

[Just A Box Of Rain]

21. LOL

[orangecrush]

23. ...

[orangecrush]

24. BTW you were right

They are now saying it was likely accidental, and may have been caused by Ukrainian air defenses deflecting the missile.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

25. Getting that news from you, just now, with my 6:23 coffee here in LA, but

that was my hunch.

[orangecrush]

26. Yup

It was a Ukrainian air defense projectile.

[Donkees]

9. They've scheduled an Article 4 meeting for Wednesday morning

[orangecrush]

11. Thank you