• Vikthor@piefed.world
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    15 hours ago

    You just have no idea. What are you talking about?

    Some of the drones that were shot down over Poland were shot down by the Dutch F-35s, Poland is not on their own.

    And the your second error is even bigger. Nobody can veto an article 5. If a NATO member invokes article 5, other countries individually offer as much help as they deem necessary. Hungary can withhold any help, but can’t prevent say UK or France from deploying their armies to Poland or Baltics.

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      10 hours ago

      “On their own” is a hyperbolization on my part. But compare how half of Europe scrambled their jets along with US to shoot couple hundred Shaheds from Iran coming to Israel, to Dutch generously deciding to send couple F-35’s to protect actual NATO member after 3 years of biggest war in Europe since WW2 raging just next door, and to that add in US still planning to withdraw troops from Europe.

      I just call that same thing will happen when article 5 gets invoked again - instead of “attack on one is attack on all” there will be couple of actually responsible allies helping and everyone else dragging their tails with stuff like “we’ll go in if everyone else goes in” or whatever.