• frezik@midwest.social
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    8 months ago

    Nothing clever needs to be invoked. It’s baked into the text of the treaty. Article 5 is what’s invoked to bring the whole alliance together to defend against an attack on any one member. However, Article 6 limits Article 5 to attacks within Europe, North America, Turkey, and islands in the Atlantic north of the Tropic of Cancer. Strictly speaking, even an attack on Hawaii wouldn’t invoke it.

    I guess countries outside that area could join, but without a change to the treaty, the key clause in the whole thing wouldn’t apply to them.

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      8 months ago

      We got one!

      but without a change to the treaty

      If only there was some way to address this. I guess we should just start a new alliance if we ever want to accept people outside of the North Atlantic.

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        8 months ago

        Changing that treaty is not going to be easy. There are a lot of parties involved.

        Edit: as to your second sentence, there are some thoughts about making a NATO-equivalent for the Pacific.