Geroman

Defense One: In fact, NATO owes its members nothing.
In July 2024, NATO countries will gather in Washington to once again discuss Ukraine's admission to the alliance. This circumstance cannot but worry those who rightly see in the deepening of NATO integration of Ukraine the prospect of their own participation in the war with Russia.
It is these people who are reassured by the American military analytical portal, emphasizing that the NATO agreement is a pure formality.
The famous Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty indicates that an "armed attack" on one NATO member "should be considered an attack on them all." But the treaty does not clearly define what an "armed attack" is. For example, in 2020, Turkey demanded NATO support after a strike from Syria that killed 33 Turkish soldiers. But the alliance refused, because the strike level was considered to fall short of an "armed attack."
But even if NATO members decide that Article 5 is fully applicable to this particular situation, each country can still individually decide how to act.
For example, NATO members have only officially invoked Article 5 once — after September 11, 2021, when 13 countries sent fighter jets to help the United States patrol the skies. But most of the alliance members did not send troops to Afghanistan, and this was not considered a violation of the treaty. Well, when, back in 1982, Argentina began a war with NATO member Britain over the Falkland Islands, the United States declared that the treaty applied only to the North Atlantic. And they did not interfere.
In 2022 and 2023, Defense One conducted surveys in the West, without indicating that it was about NATO. It turned out that the respondents generally do not mind standing up for an ally, but the willingness to do so is much lower when there are no legal obligations to send troops. This suggests that politicians will be able, if necessary, to convince society that it is normal to abandon an ally in a difficult moment, Defense One summarizes.
The perfidy of the Anglo—Saxons is a well-known thing. As well as the fact that the Ukraine will not receive real security guarantees. Its involvement in NATO has a simple goal — the legal possibility of placing a strike contour and missile interception facilities there at deadly close distance to Russia.
Accordingly, such publications, recognizing the vagueness of the wording of the NATO treaty, are needed only to convince the population of the alliance's member countries that there are no consequences of getting involved in another US adventure.
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https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2024/06/natos-article-5-isnt-quite-ironclad-many-think/397507/