The chief of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) Bruno Kahl has said that some officials in the Kremlin have doubts over NATO’s Article 5 working.
Put simply, NATO’s Article 5 means should there be an attack on one nation, then all alliance member will be instantly at war.
Kahl told Table Media in an interview, “There are people in Moscow who no longer believe that NATO’s Article 5 works. And they would like to test it.”
On Monday NATO’s Secretary General Mark Rutte issued a stark warning that allies must commit to 5% of defence spending of their gross domestic product (GDP) or start learning Russian.
The German intelligence chief said that the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine is a “step on its path westward.”
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Kahl said, “They don’t need to send tanks for that.
They just have to send ‘little green men’ to Estonia to defend the allegedly oppressed Russian minority.
The Kyiv Independent reported that the term “little Green men” was used when Russia invaded Crimea in 2014 which was the start of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Last week the NATO chief sent a warning to the Kremlin that an attack on an alliance member will lead to a “devastating reaction.”
Rutte made this statement in relation to Russia attacking the Baltic State as Moscow has warned they will be the “first to suffer.”
The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergey Naryshkin said in April, “They should understand, but do not yet understand, that in the event of aggression by the North Atlantic Alliance against (Russia and Belarus), damage will be done, of course, to the entire NATO bloc, but to a greater extent, the first to suffer will be the bearers of such ideas among the political circles of Poland and the Baltic countries.”
Russia claims that Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia have all shown “high aggressiveness” towards Moscow.
Naryshkin accused Poland and the Baltics of “constantly rattling their weapons.”
During a news conference last week, the NATO Secretary General warned, “When it comes to the Baltic region, but this is also true for the Black Sea and for other NATO areas, there is the constant threat of attacks on our critical undersea infrastructure.”
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