The Polish armed forces are training citizen volunteers how to be armed partisans, firing rifles and donning gas masks.
That’s… not great. The program is apparently popular, so they are expanding its capacity so that every adult male receives the training.
Unfortunately that’s not necessarily what article 5 implies. It only states that the member nations will respond, not how exactly they will respond.
This is what I fear will happen when Canada is annexed. The other NATO members will express outrage, but who’s going to launch an invasion across the Atlantic against the most powerful armed forces in the world to liberate Canada?
They will voice concern.
They will send a strongly worded letter to Putin.
Then article 42 of the EU