According to the German parliament’s lower house (Bundestag) Research Services, the deployment of ground troops by a NATO country in Ukraine would not automatically make all other NATO countries parties to the conflict. This is according to an as yet unpublished state of affairs report of the parliamentary expert panel, which states that in this scenario the state in question would itself become a party to the conflict. “If the NATO member state acts unilaterally – i.e. not within the framework of a previously decided NATO operation and outside NATO military command structures – neither NATO a…