LurkerMom: Then I saw a news-clip today. It was quite unsettling to me,

https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/zelensky-u-s...


Well, yeah, unsettling you is one of the goals of outlets like the Citizen Free Press which, BTW, has multiple failed fact checks reported by Media Bias Fact Check.

But why would it unsettle you? The U.S. has pledged to honor Article 5, the cornerstone of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, since it was established in 1949 in the aftermath of World War II. NATO has only invoked Article 5 once in its history ' on behalf of the United States in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

In answering a purely hypothetical question, Zelensky said should Ukraine fall because it was abandoned by the United States, Russia would likely be emboldened to invade NATO member states and Article 5 would be invoked. If invoked, the United States and all NATO members would be drawn into war. And soldiers (sons and daughters) die in war. They would not be dying for Ukraine -- and Zelensky never said that they would be -- as the Hodgetwins claimed.

There are better sources than the extreme rightwing Citizen Free Press.

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