French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview published Saturday evening that Western ground operations in Ukraine might be necessary “at some point”, days after meeting with German and Polish leaders.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netM
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    8 months ago

    Article 5 is only triggered when a NATO country is attacked in their territory, so no.

    The problem is that Russia might interpret it as NATO officially entering the conflict and react accordingly.

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      8 months ago

      In which case all of NATO would be drawn into the conflict. Something Russia probably wants even less.

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        8 months ago

        He’s probably hoping (and almost certainly working behind the scenes to make it happen ie Trump and similar) that NATO wouldn’t join in. We’re paying the price for our inaction amd policies over the past seventy five years or so.

        It’s now going to be even more expensive in money, suffering and lives.