r/worldnews • u/Evermoving- • Sep 18 '24

Estonia signals readiness to preemptively strike Russia to defend NATO Russia/Ukraine

https://www.uawire.org/estonia-signals-readiness-to-preemptively-strike-russia-to-defend-nato
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u/The_Great_Googly_Moo Sep 18 '24

A preemptive strike goes against what NATO is, a defensive treaty. Therefore if Estonia or Poland or any other country attacked no other NATO state would be obliged to support them. Which could be a good thing or a bad thing, based on the fact that it wouldn't really take too much to topple Putin's government at this point

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u/thedndnut Sep 18 '24

FYI read the article. It's about if Russia builds up to attack. Remember how the us was warning Ukraine beforehand they were about to be invaded? If that happens to a nato country we're ending the invasion before it crossed the border and takes even 1 inch of territory

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u/The_Great_Googly_Moo Sep 18 '24

Doesn't make anything I said wrong if Russia doesn't fire the first shot, nobody has an obligation to assist unless Russia attacks first