Wow!

It occurs to me - hypothetically, if Canada was minded to invoke the North Atlantic Treaty over this, would that be possible? If Modi state death squads are assassinating Canadian citizens on Canadian soil, that certainly feels like a legitimate basis to invoke Article 4 ('the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the parties is threatened’) and if they were so minded then it feels like on a plain reading they could go as far as attempt to invoke Article 5 ('an armed attack against one or more [members] in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all of them [permitting the] exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence’).

Of course, I’m not suggesting Canada is likely to invoke the treaty in reality given the wider geopolitical context, but it does illustrate how absolutely mad it is that a regime that NATO is currently trying to woo might simultaneously be behaving in a way that puts it technically at risk of collective armed conflict with NATO.