If PiS still orders the armed forces to conventionally intervene in Ukraine after President Putin just tried to deter them from doing so, then there’s a chance that the Belarusian and Wagner forces that are drilling just around 20 miles away from that war-torn country’s border could storm across it to stop their Polish opponents.
Article 5 calls upon NATO countries each to regard an attack on one of them as an attack on all. It most certainly does not require other NATO countries to join in when one of them attacks a third country, or takes or territory in a third country to “protect” it and then is attacked by forces of two other countries.
Article 5 calls upon NATO countries each to regard an attack on one of them as an attack on all. It most certainly does not require other NATO countries to join in when one of them attacks a third country, or takes or territory in a third country to “protect” it and then is attacked by forces of two other countries.