NATO marks 70 years with mutual suspicion and insults | CBC News
For decades, the 29 countries making up NATO have been
reassured by the treaty’s ironclad guarantee of mutual defence in
Article Five of its founding charter: “an armed attack against one or
more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack
against them all.”
reassured by the treaty’s ironclad guarantee of mutual defence in
Article Five of its founding charter: “an armed attack against one or
more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack
against them all.”
But in the era of U.S. President Donald
Trump, governments now have doubts about the United States’ commitment
to Article Five. The mutual defence clause has only ever been invoked
once — by Canada on behalf of the U.S. in the immediate aftermath of the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.