Originally Posted by
Ninthace
As I recall USA invoked Article V after 9/11 and the rest of NATO came to the aid of the US and ended up losing good people.
It's the least you could do after your security had been subsidized for over 50 years.
It makes no sense to do it now. It just gets fixed and it tips your hand.
I agree with ORAC.
For one thing, it's consistent with Putin's MO of "let's see how far we can push this" and the other is (I think) as a bit of pay back to various NATO nations for providing weapons that are striking into Russia and harming their infrastructure.
And beyond that, Ninth, Russian cyber attacks on US (and other Western) IT systems are a few decades old. In the Cyberworld, play is continuous.
The folks at NSA deal with that every day.