'The next couple of days, the facts will be established,' former director of policy planning for NATO, Fabrice Pothier, told Newsweek.
"I don't think Article 5 was really on the table," said Pothier, although he believed that there was still enough ground for Poland to invoke Article 4,"because the bottom line is that Polish territory was breached as a result of an overall escalation undertaken by Russia."
Article 4 allows for any member to seek consultations with the rest of the alliance and states when"the territorial integrity, political independence, or security of any of the parties is threatened," according to the treaty.
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