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Originally Posted by Chris
Most other European countries are content to shelter behind Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which is only worth the paper it's written on because it is backed up by nuclear arms, and crucially arms held by three different governments with overlapping but not identical military and foreign policy outlooks. That makes any calculation such as you appeared to make earlier (we wouldn't use them and they know we wouldn't) impossible for any opponent to make. Three capitals, three heads of government, three different fingers on three different triggers and three different sets of standing orders.
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AH! I see what you mean Chris. - A minefield! Better than nothing though.