Should NATO respond militarily in Ukraine?

[ColinC]

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	Yes
	4 (18%)
	No
	2 (9%)
	Only if Poland invokes article 5.
	15 (68%)
	Other
	0 (0%)
	No. Not even if Poland invokes article 5.
	1 (5%)
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[msongs]

1. well that depends on facts of the matter, not media war mongering hysteria nt

[ColinC]

2. I am basing this

On the assumption That Russia try to kill Ukrainians on Ukrainian soil close to Poland and accidentally killed Polish citizens on Polish soil

[Beachnutt]

7. In other words

putin can kill all the Ukranian men women and children he wants and maybe a couple of polish folks is ok too...

[Meadowoak]

3. putin needs to be taken out. NOW

[Wounded Bear]

4. Ukraine is not in NATO...

It is yet to be determined what to do about the explosions in Poland.

That's gonna take some patience to determine exactly what happened and explore a "why" before a response is agreed upon.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

6. Depends

If Poland was targeted specifically, then yes, if they invoke Article 5. But if it was an errant missile, either due to being damaged by Ukrainian interceptors, jammed by the Ukrainians, failed due to being shitty russian equipment, targeting miscalculated due to shitty russian training or drunk conscripts, then no.

[Emrys]

8. Article 4 is more likely at this point.

In Article 4 of NATO’s founding treaty, members can bring any issue of concern, especially related to the security of a member country, to the table for discussion within the North Atlantic Council.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49187.htm

Article 5 at this stage would be a very serious escalation that reeked of unfortunate red lines.

[AngryOldDem]

9. Let's just find out exactly what is going on first.

This is very serious shit. Right now it’s Poland in charge. They have to request NATO involvement, as far as I understand.

Jake Tapper is really cheerleading escalation…just slow your roll, man.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. "in Ukraine"? It can't be done practically.

Rockets and drones are being fired from bases in Russia, not Ukraine. We'd have to eliminate those bases, which means direct strikes in Russia. Otherwise, we're wasting resources.

If we're going to do all that, we may as well "liberate" the Crimean peninsula, since we're in the neighborhood.

I'm sure the war plans are being polished, somewhere in a sub-sub-basement of the Pentagon.