evidence: What happens if Russia declares war on Nato? [...] The Russian president told the US and UK that giving Kyiv the green light would mean that "Nato countries, the US, European countries, are at war with Russia" – an "unusually specific warning", said The New York Times (NYT). [...] To a "growing number of military analysts and former US officials", said the NYT, the fear of a Russian war on Nato "makes no sense" because Ukraine's incursion into Kursk has "yet to elicit an escalatory response from Moscow".