Stamets@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
NATO is a defensive alliance made up of countries. It reacts to threats and protects themselves and their allies. It’s not an aggressive/attack first organization and even then calling it an organization is not really that accurate. It’s an agreement amongst countries. If a NATO aligned country were to invade Ukraine in an attempt to help them, it would be seen as instigating that attack and other NATO countries would have no obligation to join in. If Russia were to then attack that invading country, they would not have the protections of the other NATO countries. Fuck around find out basically.
So like theorhetically you could have Canada, or another country, invade Ukraine to help them but Russia would scream endlessly about NATO and NATO would then be in hot water. They’d have to publicly disavvow the Canadian invasion and if Canada were attacked (even on home soil) due to the provocation, I don’t think any other country would be required to defend Canada.
even then calling it an organization is not really that accurate
It is an organization, you can go work for the NATO directly. They are headquartered in Brussels.
That said, military intervention on behalf of NATO works as you described, but there would be an obligation to help Canada in your example if the war would spread to its home soil. That said, the help obligation is literally worded “as they deem necessary”, so they could pretend that no large-scale intervention is necessary.
TheChargedCreeper864@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
This is the missing link in my idea. I suppose there to be a lot of reasons why Ukraine, if it wanted to enact this bottom of the barrel, shitpost-tier of international policy, couldn’t simply “stage” something that would force all of NATO to stand behind the invading country due to a technicality?