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> They... requested NATO to discuss it. Officially. Which is kind of a big deal. I'm totally ignorant on NATO procedures, so forgive me that I don't understand
by khazhoux 5y ago
> They... requested NATO to discuss it. Officially. Which is kind of a big deal.
I'm totally ignorant on NATO procedures, so forgive me that I don't understand the Big Deal here. Obviously, NATO nations will discuss this. They didn't need Estonia to draw attention to what Russia is doing.
So this seems to me a bit like: The exact thing that obviously would happen next (NATO nations discussing) will still happen, but now it's dressed up in a formalism?
- hef19898 5y agoNATO, like every other organisation, is discussing things all the time. Article 4 is the equivalent of not just inviting to a meeting about about a topic but raising a formal JIRA ticket and invoking a formal process involving senior management to discuss the severity (and not the mere existence) of that ticket. So yeah, invoking an official article is a big deal, because it forces the whole of NATO to formally address this issue. No NATO member nation can easily weasel out of this now.
- khazhoux 5y agoThe formality had to be done. But the Article 4 invocation is not (I claim) itself a significant event. To extend your analogy, this is like creating a JIRA ticket when your website with 100 million daily users suddenly goes offline. The shit has already hit the fan and it’s already all hands on deck.