• maynarkh@feddit.nl
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    7 months ago

    Not necessarily. NATO only gets involved if one of the members are fighting a defensive war, which this would not be, and the member in question specifically requests help.

    Most of NATO didn’t go to Iraq for example.

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      7 months ago

      Yes, but that is irrelevant. France involving themselves opens them up to retaliation from Russia. If Russia retaliated against France, and even if not strictly required to by Article 5, it is likely other NATO countries would join the conflict.

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        6 months ago

        Yeah, but Russia won’t retaliate, because it knows that. Russia committing genocide opened them up to retaliatory actions like this. I’m under no illusion that France is only there to protect its geopolitical ambitions against those of Russia, but Russia gave them a justification, escalated the conflict in a way.

        Let’s hope Russia won’t escalate further.