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I think the Article 5 protection is exactly why Poland feels comfortable doing this. If they shared your concern they wouldn't have done it. And as other people

• blagie 5y ago
  No, I don't think Poland feels comfortable in doing this. The West broke alliances with Poland over and over, as convenient, and just broke the Budapest Manifesto with Ukraine. See the Phoney War and the Warsaw Uprising for a good history. Poland feels _more_ comfortable doing this than the alternative, though. If Russia stands unopposed in Ukraine, who do you think is next?
  • bcrosby95 5y ago
    > and just broke the Budapest Manifesto with Ukraine. No they didn't. The only country that broke it is Russia.
    • blagie 5y ago
      Yes. They did. E.g. "4. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used;" We've had plenty of nuclear threats at this point; fear of escalating to nuclear war is precisely what limits Ukraine's ability to get aid. A condemnation, as the US raised, is not "action."