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Russia’s sabotage of Western targets could finally prompt NATO to consider invoking Article 5 of the mutual defense clause, Germany’s foreign intelligence chief says
Bruno Kahl, head of the Bundesnachrichtendienst, said at an event hosted by the DGAP think tank in Berlin on Wednesday that he expected Moscow to further escalate its hybrid warfare, which could eventually trigger the NATO clause.
“Russia’s intensive use of hybrid measures increases the risk that NATO will eventually consider invoking its Article 5 mutual defence clause,” Kahl said.
Article 5 states that if a NATO country is the victim of an armed attack, each member of the Alliance will consider this act of violence as an armed attack directed against the members as a whole and will take the measures it deems necessary to come to the aid of the country attacked.
