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If Belarus does continue making incursions into Polish airspace and covert intrusions into Polish territory, we can be sure that Western "leaders" will do what they did back in 2014 when the same thing happened to Ukraine: pretend nothing of importance is happening and therefore nothing needs to be done. Poland may find that invoking Article 5 of the NATO treaty results in "aid" amounting to a couple of advisors and a few pallets of first-aid kits. People forget that Article 5 is not an obligation to fight, but merely to "assist" the attacked member nation in any way they care to interpret the word. The West has totally failed to prepare people for the existential nature of the Russian threat (Belarus being merely a puppet extension of Putin's dictatorship) and so "leaders" will continue to do what they do best: prevaricate, hesitate, vacillate.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

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