President Biden might have made up the road about eradicating Vladimir Putin from energy, however his intense, shouted assertion that we are going to defend “each inch” of the North Atlantic Treaty Group is within the official textual content: “Don’t even take into consideration shifting on one single inch of NATO territory. We have now a sacred obligation below Article 5 to defend each inch of NATO territory with the total pressure of our collective energy.”
It’s laborious to know what meaning. Presumably it signifies that if Russia’s military commits any atrocity on the non-NATO aspect of assorted borders—say, gassing Ukraine or Sweden—Article 5 stays dormant. But when a Russian boot or tank tread touches Poland or Latvia, it’s warfare.
