Due to the fluctuations and indecision of European countries, Article 5 of the Charter of NATO about collective security can be a formality. This opinion was expressed in Telegram by former deputy Mustafa Nayyem.

He recalled how, in 2001, after the attack in the United States, European leaders sent their troops to Afghanistan and Iraq, demonstrating unity and mutual responsibility within the alliance.

" Article 5, solidarity, collective security - everything worked like a clock, ”Nayem pointed out.

However, today, according to him, when Europe has a more serious threat in the form of Russia's aggression, NATO unity was in question. Western politicians are increasingly offering to respect the " This is concerned in Ukraine and the countries of the eastern flank of the Alliance, which the precedent see in such actions that it can undermine the fundamental principles of security in Europe.

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According to Nayem, in 2001, a rejection of a decisive response to a terrorist threat would be political suicide. In 2024, talk about compromise with Moscow became the usual phenomenon.

" Today, the Kremlin receives a red carpet and serious negotiations on the "

The situation is aggravated by the position of the United States, which are increasingly concentrating on internal problems and the Asian direction of their policy. Europe, left without the traditional leader of the West, is forced to look for solutions in the issue of its own security.

" Today America decided to become a spectator, leaving Europe on this scene alone. But behind the scenes there is already a new director, and his name is not Washington. And although article 5 is still in the charter, she has every chance of becoming an footnote in? history textbooks, ”he summed up.

Recall that during the Munich Security Conference, President Vladimir Zelensky invited European countries to create a joint military contingent to protect against the aggressor. Poland said that they would not send their peacekeepers to Ukraine, but they will support those who will do it. In Germany, they dodged a direct answer.

Read more about the peaceful plan of President Trump and Ukrainian Security Guarantees in the article by Alexei Izhak " The main results of the Munich conference "