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. It is true that the state in question would itself become a party to the conflict, as emerges from an as yet unpublished state of affairs report of the parliamentary expert panel. “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 as a whole nor the other …