Will the United States send troops to defend its allies in accordance with NATO rules?
Dmitri Trenin, President of the Russian International Affairs Council, has described the notion that an attack on one NATO member constitutes an attack on all—prompting the United States to automatically rush to their aid with full military might, as stipulated by the widely discussed 'Article 5' of the historic 1949 Washington Treaty—as an enduring and alluring 'fairy tale' or myth.
