Where do you draw the line?

[angrysoba]

"At NATO" is where we kept getting told it is at.

Makes perfect sense. It is literally s club where the members agree where the line is drawn. That is literally the entire point of it.

Now some people seem to be saying “whoah now! When did we make such arbitrary line drawing?” Answer: when NATO was formed if you are in an original member and/or when your country joined.

That is good enough for me, if the question really means when does MATO join the war.

 

[theprestige]

I fail to see how the invasion of a non-NATO country is NATO's problem at all. NATO is a narrowly defined mutual defense organization with clearly defined trigger conditions that have not been met.

Whether or not a NATO member, or multiple NATO countries in coordination, decide to intervene seems meaningfully different than NATO itself intervening. Unless we're using NATO in the more colloquial sense that means "Mostly the United States with some help from friends".

I tried to make colloquial NATO a thing, but it didn't take.