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Wait, WHO Wants to Join NATO?

By STEPHEN GREEN

Before we get to today’s What in the Actual Hell? story, I have to give you some background. I promise to keep it as light and breezy as possible, in that classic VodkaPundit style.

 “The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all,” is the opening line of NATO’s famous Article 5, calling upon every member to go to war should any of them be attacked.

Kids these days aren’t exactly spouting treaty text and, come to think of it, kids back in my day weren’t doing that either. Because we were kids. With kid lives. We had bikes to ride, PBJs to eat, teachers to taunt. But if you were to ask a reasonably well-informed adult about the North Atlantic Treaty’s Article 5, they might remember the gist of it. It got a lot of play during the Bad Old Days of the Cold War, again after 9/11 — the only time Article 5 has ever been invoked — and lately these last couple of years as Finland, Sweden, and (in vain) Ukraine have all applied for membership.

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