In an emergency, would NATO stage a False Flag operation to get involved?

[The Magistrate]

13. Certainly That Occured, Ma'am

It does not seem to have much relevance to the present situation in Ukraine. The O.P. is incoherent, asking if NATO would contrive a 'false flag' operation for pretext to respond with military force if Russia used chemical or nuclear weapons. Such action by Russia would provide sufficient cause itself, there would be no need of pretext. A 'false flag' would be a contrived pretext, and involve some actual attack by NATO forces on Ukrainian soldiery or civilians. That runs awfully close to run of the mill Russian propaganda lines, which we have already seen trotted out in the matter of massacres in liberated territory. It also implies some active desire on the part of NATO powers to take military action against Russia, which does not seem in evidence, though there is certainly some popular enthusiasm, present and growing, for such action in this country. You would be better positioned to speak to European attitudes on the question than I.

I have no particular quarrel with the origin of the Gladio business. Some advance organization of partisan bodies to be activated in event of successful invasion is pretty standard stuff. That it outlived any legitimacy is undisputed, and that it became an instrument of rightist terror is certain.