The picture shows Zelenskiy and Putin
Recently, after 180 foreign mercenaries were killed by the Russian army, Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Affairs Commission of Ukraine, warned that if the Russian army dares to attack again, once the NATO collective defense clause is triggered, NATO will take action against Russia. As soon as this news came out, the outside world was in an uproar, and they speculated one after another, is it possible that the 30 NATO countries are going to act?
NATO has a core treaty, that is, any attack against NATO member states will be regarded as an attack on all other member states. This is what is now called the NATO Collective Defense Clause. Simply put, any member of the NATO team is beaten by members outside the organization, and the other members have to take up arms and fight together in a group. In connection with the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, it means that once Russia launches an attack on any NATO member in Western Europe, others cannot sit idly by and must unite to fight Russia.
The picture shows Danilov
What Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Affairs Commission of Ukraine, expressed this time, is inconsistent with nato secretary general Stoltenberg. What Danilov said was that a shell or bullet that hit a NATO convoy aiding Ukraine would trigger NATO's collective defense provisions. But Stoltenberg's exact words were that "any attack on NATO countries, NATO territory, will trigger this collective defense clause." Attacking aid convoys and attacking Countries and attacking territories are two very different natures. Obviously, Danilov stole the concept and tried to threaten Russia in this way and pull NATO into the water by the way, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone. But NATO and Russia are not stupid, this trick did not make any splash at all, and Stoltenberg and other NATO members did not respond to it.
The picture shows Stoltenberg
Since the beginning of the war, from the perspective of NATO's behavior, its hostility to Russia is very obvious, it has been warned by Putin many times, but every step carried out by the two sides is very cautious, although NATO is constantly testing Russia's bottom line, but under Russia's tough measures, it has shown a trend of retreat, obviously, NATO is not willing to have a military conflict with Russia, which is something that both sides know well. What the Ukrainian side said that once the Russian army destroyed NATO's assistance, it would trigger the collective defense clause, which is nonsense.
The picture shows the scene of the NATO meeting
So why did the Ukrainian side jump out at this time and suddenly say that the Russian army may attack the NATO aid convoy, mainly because the Russian army has started the plan to attack the western part of Ukraine, and has destroyed two airfields in the west. One of the purposes of the Russian military in doing so is to cut off NATO's weapons and military supply, cut off Ukraine's backup supply, and then form a situation of encirclement of Ukraine on all sides, gain absolute control over the war, and finally promote peace talks as soon as possible and end the war. However, when Ukraine saw that the situation was very unfavorable to itself, it naturally began to seek help and was ready to pull NATO to help him deal with Russia, but unfortunately NATO has not yet responded.
As far as the current situation between Russia and Ukraine is concerned, if it continues to fight, Ukraine will suffer heavy losses, and Russia's economy will make it difficult for it to support huge military expenditures, and the West is still constantly sanctioning Russia's economy. Therefore, the Russian side should speed up the pace of peace talks, end the war on the Ukrainian side as soon as possible, and free up its hands to deal with its own country's economic problems.
The author of this article is Nanshu.