Article 5 was only triggered once, to call for help invading a country that hadn’t even attacked any NATO member.
There’s a UN-supervised demilitarized zone between two NATO members, to keep them from attacking each other.
And a NATO member has recently threatened another NATO member with unprovoked invasion.
It’s dead, Jim.
And it’s better to accept that now, than find out only after Russia attacked the Baltics and the US refused to help.
9/11 was an attack on the USA, which still is a NATO member. You could argue the attack was not by Afghanistan, but then Afghanistan was harboring the group that did.
The UN-supervised demilitarized zone on Cyprus is between Cyprus, which is not a NATO member, and North Cyprus, which is neither a NATO member, nor recognized by any NATO member except Turkey.
So you made three factual claims that are all three false. I will leave it as an exercise to the reader whether they carry the conclusion in any way.
Article 5 was only triggered once, to call for help invading a country that hadn’t even attacked any NATO member.
There’s a UN-supervised demilitarized zone between two NATO members, to keep them from attacking each other.
And a NATO member has recently threatened another NATO member with unprovoked invasion.
It’s dead, Jim.
And it’s better to accept that now, than find out only after Russia attacked the Baltics and the US refused to help.
9/11 was an attack on the USA, which still is a NATO member. You could argue the attack was not by Afghanistan, but then Afghanistan was harboring the group that did.
The UN-supervised demilitarized zone on Cyprus is between Cyprus, which is not a NATO member, and North Cyprus, which is neither a NATO member, nor recognized by any NATO member except Turkey.
So you made three factual claims that are all three false. I will leave it as an exercise to the reader whether they carry the conclusion in any way.