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Help Ukrainians survive the war: LifeFunder
BRUSSELS, Belgium (LifeSiteNews) – A cyberattack could theoretically suffice to entangle the allied nations of NATO into open military conflict, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday as tensions continue to intensify over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“We have stated that cyberattacks can trigger Article 5, but we have never gone into the position where we give a potential adversary the privilege of defining exactly when we trigger Article 5,” Stoltenberg said Friday. “We are focused on strengthening our cyber defenses, we are very much aware that that’s a risk, and therefore we are stepping up, both the protection of our cyber networks but also [inaudible] support Ukraine, and we are very focused on the need for de-confliction.”
Article 5 of NATO’s charter holds that member nations, which include the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, shall consider an armed attack on all NATO members to be an armed attack on all members, obligating all members to “assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties,
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