No no - $60 billion - I’ve been assured that’ll change the tide.
Those goofy Ukrainians will do or say anything to get other countries to send their kids over there to the meat grinder and involve us in WWIII.
No thanks dude. The Baltics is Europe’s problem and Russia isn’t going after the Baltics any time soon.
Let’s crank up the hysteria another factor of ten.
So…they haven’t been able to take Ukraine in 2 years…but they are going to take the Baltics in 7 days…ok
So how long will it take the Russians to capture Newfoundland? Surely that must be on their agenda.
London by august.
B. S. Scaremongers.
However, the Russians could get friendlier governments in the long run, if the Baltic people rebel against being sent to Ukraine as cannon fodder.
with armor???
More of the Russian Derangement Syndrome….invented by our Democrats just before Trumps election. It was long thought to be a non fatal brain disease,but now is proven to be a deadly disease.
So I have a question about this. Does that mean if a pipsqueek of a former Baltic principality steps on a lions tail to provoke an attack, and the lion attacks are we bound to go kill the lion. Surely part of diplomacy is to restrain those on your side to being reasonable, not that we have grounds there to challenge anyone else
Baloney. They aren’t going there. This is just Ukraine and the ignoramus Baltics doing their best to get America into the war on the eastern front, playing the role of the Wehrmacht.
So I guess it will take Russia over twice as long (7 days) to take the Baltics as it did for them to take Ukraine. /rolling eyes
No, no way—not even the Babylon Bee would write something that incredibly stupid, unbelievable and absurd!
I’m sure he did not say it with a straight face.
They can’t capture a few miles of Ukraine in 2 years.
Usses needs mo money!!
Article Five of NATO's founding document states that "an armed attack against one or more" of its member nations "shall be considered an attack against them all."
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm
Collective Defence and Article 5
NATO
Last updated 04 Jul 2023 11:47
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A cornerstone of the AllianceArticle 5
In 1949, the primary aim of the North Atlantic Treaty – NATO’s founding treaty – was to create a pact of mutual assistance to counter the risk that the Soviet Union would seek to extend its control of Eastern Europe to other parts of the continent.
Every participating country agreed that this form of solidarity was at the heart of the Treaty, effectively making Article 5 on collective defence a key component of the Alliance.
Article 5 provides that if a NATO Ally is the victim of an armed attack, each and every other member of the Alliance will consider this act of violence as an armed attack against all members and will take the actions it deems necessary to assist the Ally attacked.
Article 5
“The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.”
This article is complemented by Article 6, which stipulates:
Article 61
“For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack:
- on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France2, on the territory of Turkey or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer;
- on the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over these territories or any other area in Europe in which occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer.”
The principle of providing assistance
With the invocation of Article 5, Allies can provide any form of assistance they deem necessary to respond to a situation. This is an individual obligation on each Ally and each Ally is responsible for determining what it deems necessary in the particular circumstances.
This assistance is taken forward in concert with other Allies. It is not necessarily military and depends on the material resources of each country. It is therefore left to the judgment of each individual member country to determine how it will contribute. Each country will consult with the other members, bearing in mind that the ultimate aim is to “to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area”.
At the drafting of Article 5 in the late 1940s, there was consensus on the principle of mutual assistance, but fundamental disagreement on the modalities of implementing this commitment. The European participants wanted to ensure that the United States would automatically come to their assistance should one of the signatories come under attack; the United States did not want to make such a pledge and obtained that this be reflected in the wording of Article 5.
Are we supposed to “care,” or something? Those so hot and bothered by that “bogeyman” Russia better hope Trump wins. Trump’s energy policies would starve Putin of the oil and gas revenue he needs for his wars. That Stalin wannabe would go bankrupt and leave Ukraine with his tail between his legs if Trump unleashes American drilling and fracking!
Nonsense. Russia cannot even handle Ukraine!
“Top” officials from The Ukraine FA, and then they FO