WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama attended a NATO summit in Warsaw earlier this month, he had one core goal: to reassure jittery members of the 67-year Alliance that the U.S. would defend them against Russian aggression.
“As treaty allies, we have a solemn, binding Article 5 duty to defend each other. And in this obligation, we will never waver,” President Obama said.
Article 5 is the provision in the NATO treaty under which an attack on any one member is treated as an attack on the whole Alliance, triggering an automatic collective response. And it is a provision that Donald Trump …read more
Source: European Voice
