BIG | 🇨🇿🇵🇱🇸🇰🇷🇺‼️ As concerns over Russian activity on NATO’s eastern flank grow, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš says Prague would honor its Article 5 commitments and come to Poland’s aid if it were attacked.
His position contrasts with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who has said he would do everything possible to prevent Slovakia from being drawn into a military conflict and questioned involvement “because of some Article 5,” while still saying Slovakia values its NATO membership and cooperation.
The contrasting messages come amid wider European concern that Russia could seek to test NATO cohesion through hybrid actions designed to remain below the threshold of open war. NATO’s deterrence ultimately depends not only on military capabilities, but also on the credibility of collective defense and political cohesion among its members.
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