What If Putin Attacks NATO? Here Is What Could Happen Next
ByCharles Stimson
Would NATO go to war? What are the United States’ legal obligations if Russian President Vladimir Putin orders his military to invade a NATO country and NATO invokes Article 5 of the treaty, the collective self-defense provision?
The answer to this legal question, which is complicated, is the narrow focus on this article. Before diving in, however, it’s important to start with a few caveats.
First, as my colleagues have already written (see here, here, here and here), Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, a non-NATO country, has been unlawful, despicable, and totally unwarranted. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a former actor and comedian before running for office, has been nothing short of inspiring, brave, and patriotic, as have the people of Ukraine.
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