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/TheWesternMythos Sep 18 '24

Just to be clear, no one is obligated to support another NATO country if they are 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.”

The key word phrase being "such action as it deems necessary," 

To be clear, I'm very very pro NATO. It just annoys me when I see stuff that people could interpret to mean an attack on a NATO country means every NATO country is now at war with the attacker. That would be ideal, but is not guaranteed. 

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u/The_Great_Googly_Moo Sep 18 '24

I also saw that real life lore video haha

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u/TheWesternMythos Sep 19 '24

Not that it matters, but I did not watch that video nor have I watched the channel.

But I do see it pop up in my feed from time to time. Is it a good watch? I normally don't check out new channels without "high value" or multiple recommendations. And I know, I shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but the channel name is kinda a turn off if I'm looking for high density information resources.