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8/10/23 Ted Snider on the Polish-Belarussian Tension

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

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The Dangers of Article 5 Overruling Congress

NATO's Article 5 does not say we must go to war if a NATO member is attacked. Some scholars think Ukraine's intention or hope all along is that they can draw NATO in. Poland has been one of the most assertive proponents of getting Ukraine into NATO. And with Poland trying to get NATO more involved so that Ukraine can win the war, then there's this fear that maybe Poland would try something more direct to draw Ukraine into NATO and NATO into Ukraine. But again, it's very unlikely that NATO would allow Ukraine to be indirectly drawn in that way but Poland's been very hawkish.

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