Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Russia's Cyberattack on Lithuania Reveals NATO's Deeper Problems" video.
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I think it would be much easier to come up with some agreement on this among EU nations, being as they are far more integrated with each other, politically and economically, so a cyberattack is likely to have an impact across the region, especially if it's a big cyberattack that shuts down a utility company.
As for cyberattacks overall, it's clear that rouge nations are using that as a weapon and that could become much worse as the world becomes more interconnected, so maybe EU and NATO countries should cooperate and beef up online security.
As for article 5 of NATO, the problem I find with it is that there is little holding the countries in it together and it would be a bold step for other members in it to come to the aid of any that gets attacked, at least in a meaningful way, but on the other side of the coin, if others don't, the value of NATO becomes redundant, which reduces it's usefulness a lot.
The EU on the other hand is a different ball game and not because it's better as such but because the members in it are integrated a lot more with each other, that likely means that an attack on one would put a lot of pressure on the others to help in a meaningful way because it's in their interest to do so because of how integrated they are together, in fact, the idea behind the Coal and Steal Community was designed to prevent another major war from breaking out among EU members, that likely is also the case for any country that attacks an EU country, in other words, EU countries would likely have to come to the aid of the one being attacked, a lot more so then we are seeing in Ukraine right now, to not do so would really undermine the union and to a less the degree, it's the same with NATO but there is far less holding the members of NATO together compared to EU members, which have very close political, economic and social ties together.
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