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Basically the rules are, you can't be in a fight already if you want to join.
Which makes a lot of sense. If you could wait until you need backup to join, you'd just never join until you need it. No country wants to get sucked into someone else's war.
At least, that's the mentality. The truth is, no war is "someone else's war". We're all in this together globally, and oppression anywhere is a threat to everywhere.
Who knows, maybe NATO'll update to the modern era after this. Maybe.
I don't think the NATO will exist for much longer. I expect the US withdrawing soon, causing a chain reaction.
It's a race to the salted Earth bottom, for sure.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was among the topics discussed during the recent meeting between Trump and Putin. I expect there is already a plan and timeframe.
Probably not, at least not while conservatives hold power in allied countries.
FTFY
There is no such rule. The rule is everyone else already in has to agree to you joining. Practically most people don't want to go to war and so nobody will agree, but there is no rule stating they can't agree.
An unwritten rule, then.
Not anymore, you wrote it down
IIRC, there's also a sort of anti-parasite scan, naturally. If you've ever experienced bedbugs, you'll know the value in that. Deeply.