NATO to respond to Putin's provocations
Russian acts of sabotage against Western targets may finally prompt NATO to consider invoking Article 5 of the Mutual Defense Clause, says Germany's foreign intelligence chief.
Bruno Kahl, head of the Bundesnachrichtendienst, told an event organized by think tank DGAP in Berlin on Wednesday that he expected Moscow to further intensify its hybrid warfare, which could eventually trigger the application of the NATO clause.
“Russia's intensive use of hybrid measures increases the risk that NATO will eventually consider invoking its mutual defense clause under Article 5,” said Kahl.
Article 5 stipulates that if a NATO country is the victim of an armed attack, each member of the Alliance will consider the act of violence as an armed attack against all members and will take the measures it deems necessary to come to the aid of the attacked country.
(MH with MaSi/Source: Agence/Photo: Marek Studzinski/Pixabay)