Not sure if we’ll see NATO sink to ignoring a real attack on a member followed by article 5 or maybe pressuring such a member not to invoke article 5, seems unlikely, but frankly humans are the same everywhere.

I’ve been asking myself the very same question ever since

• An Orlan-10 crashed in Romania
• A Tu-141 Strizh crashed in Croatia
• Two Kalibr cruise missiles flew over Romanian territory
• North Stream exploded
• A missile killed two people in Poland and it was so obviously covered up that it was russian
• A Kh-55 crashed in Poland without anybody noticing

Frankly, North Stream and the missile strike in Poland convinced me that NATO will do everything, even lying and cover ups, to prevent having to intervene in this war. Even though in the beginning, the US loudly proclaimed that the U.S. and its allies will “defend every inch” of the NATO territory and would respond even in the event of an accidental or unintentional strike by Russia.