NATO's Article 5 Not the 'Tripwire' That Biden Pretends it is
Warmongers in the West pretend that there would be an automatic war with Russia if "one inch" of NATO is attacked. There's a grey area.
Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, the little guy you see on CNN promoting war against Vladimir Putin, responded to a recent missile strike that landed near Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Odesa.
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“Russia just got within 150 meters of an article 5, with news of the strike in Odessa almost hitting the Greek Prime Minister,” the neocon wrote on X.
His remark is part of the propaganda campaign from the Biden administration to pretend that it would go to war with Russia if “one inch” of NATO territory is attacked by the evil Russians.
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President Joe Biden, desperate to keep the public interested in the war, said at the one-year mark: “The commitment of the United States to NATO – I’ve said it to you many times, and I’ll say it again, – is absolutely clear. Article 5 is a sacred commitment the United States has made. We will defend literally every inch of NATO. Every inch of NATO.”
Stephen M. Walt, the columnist at Foreign Policy and the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University, wrote recently that Article 5 is a little more complicated than “you hit us, we’re going to war.”
“Article V of the North Atlantic Treaty is not a tripwire that commits members to fight in the event another member is attacked. At U.S. insistence, Article V only commits a member state to regard an attack on one as an attack on all, and then to take “such actions as it deems necessary.” Nonetheless, this clause is widely interpreted as a commitment to defend any member that is under attack, and a failure to come to any member state’s aid in the event of a serious invasion would call the entire alliance into question. Before bringing in any new member, therefore, the rest of the alliance should think long and hard about its willingness to put its forces at risk should it be attacked.”