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Originally Posted by Monahammer
Who promotes NATO as unified? They're a treaty that exists for one purpose: Mutual defence of existing territory against expansionist threat. Orban not respecting the territorial integrity of a non-member state doesn't in any way change the unity of NATO against it's stated intention. You can bet that Orban would invoke article 5 if Russian troops touched his border. Same with Turkey; they have absolutely no requirement to defend Ukraine or to allow food shipments. They are not in those types of alliances with the West. They are in a defence alliance, and they are using all of the influence they can and their positional importance to maximize the benefit for their people. Frankly that's what a government is supposed to do. Is it noble? No, but stop conflating the unity of NATO for meaning they are 100% aligned on all policy. Absolutely not- NATO has a single purpose and all members have shown pretty thoroughly that they are absolutely invested in at least that one purpose.
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Sure, I get that a diverse alliance will have countries that have different priorities. When it comes to the territorial integrity of members, they do promote a united stance on that. I am surprised that would even be in question. The whole point of the alliance is to ensure that every inch of territory among its members is secure, so having a head of state openly promote irredentism against four other NATO members and a country currently partnered with NATO certainly puts a wedge in the unified defense agenda.