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Expect full-blown intervention. It's coming. On June 26, NATO members convened in Brussels. Military intervention was discussed.
Turkey invoked NATO Charter Article 4. Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko called doing so a "very alarming signal." It suggests planned "escalation around Syria."
Article 4 calls for members to "consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence, or security of any" is threatened.
It's the second time it's been used since Turkey invoked it in February 2003 ahead of Washington's Iraq aggression.
Expect Article 5 to follow. Its only use to date was in October 2001 to attack and occupy Afghanistan. Doing so was lawless aggression. Security Council authorization wasn't forthcoming.
Congress didn't declare war. Under the Constitution's Article 1, Section 8, only Congress may declare war. It hasn't done so since December 8, 1941. Post-WW II, all US wars were illegal. So are ongoing ones and what's perhaps imminent.
On June 25, Ankara urged NATO members to invoke Article 5. It considers a real or false flag attack against one or more members an attack against all. In response, it calls for naked aggression disguised as collective self-defense.
Hostile rhetoric suggests it's coming. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara no longer will tolerate security threats along its border.
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