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Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack

183 points · 182 comments · giuliomagnifico

Shank · 1790247119 · focus · HN ↗
It feels like it’s very, very risky territory for these activities to be “occurring” in a NATO country. I’m sure everyone else is thinking the same thing, but at what point does Article 5 get invoked?
1. sschueller · 1790250453 · focus · HN ↗
  After the 9/11 attacks, NATO did invoke Article 5 for the first and only time in its history.
  When Israel starts bombing Turkey with US made weapons, NATO may invoke Article 5 again but I doubt the US will do anything.
  1. TMWNN · 1790261061 · focus · HN ↗
    >After the 9/11 attacks, NATO did invoke Article 5 for the first and only time in its history.
    And before you or someone else claims otherwise, the US did not request activating Article 5, repeatedly said it did not need NATO resources, and never took the invoking seriously. <<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_NATO_Article_5_contingency" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_NATO_Article_5_contingenc...> But feel free to continue to brag about how the deployment of seven NATO aircraft for a year, and a few ships in the Mediterranean, totally saved the USA.
    (No, ISAF was not an Article 5 operation, thus the participation of the likes of Mongolia.)

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