Findings

Congress finds the following: (1) The unified strength of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is critical to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. (2) Any occupation or takeover of the sovereign territory of a NATO ally would violate the Charter of the United Nations and numerous articles of the North Atlantic Treaty, done at Washington April 4, 1949, and approved for ratification by the United States Senate on July 21, 1949 (also known as the Washington Treaty). (3) Occupation or similar actions against the sovereign territory of a NATO ally by the United States in circumstances other than to repel a foreign invasion by a non-NATO-member state would put the United States in a conflict with NATO and NATO member states, possibly weakening NATO to the point of it ceasing to be an effective collective security alliance. (4) Such an outcome would serve the strategic interests of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China while significantly undermining the national security and foreign policy objectives of the United States.