Russian President Vladimir Putin- possibly embraced by him Red carpet treatmentChinese President Xi Jinping has decided to test Europe, NATO and Team Trump at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit last month.
Many russians The martyr drone was launched to a Laviv in western Ukraine, and many of them crossed Poland. Other, in Ukraine, in the south -west, they were seen crossing in Moldova ahead of that country. parliamentary elections later this month.
Warsaw’s response was fast. Notice to aerial missions – which are commonly known as demons – were issued Closure of polish airspaceAnd airport. The Region? “Unplanned military activity related to ensuring state security.”
Civil air traffic at airports at Warsaw, Lubails, Razzo and Modelin was re -designed or placed in emergency holding patterns. Millions of poles living in Podlaski, Majoviki, and Lubelski Voivodship in East Poland Had told “To shelter in place.”
NATO was clearly landed.Brussels scrambles fighter jets To secure and protect the sky of Poland. An US Air Force F-35 was occupied by Flight Radar 24 in real-timeMid-air fuelBy the Dutch Airbus A330 tanker to the west of Kraco in Central Poland.
Evergreen Intel, a widely considered X account that tracks military air traffic, said that Poland’s response It has been unprecedented in terms of closure of its airports and airspace – and not at this level since February 2022.
Ditto to the entire Polish government’s response. Poland’s National Defense Deputy Minister, Polish Prime Minister according to Donald Task, according to Cezary Tomczyk Immediately traveledFor command center coordinating the country’s air protection.
Armed Forces’ operational command of Poland announced that to perform the operation Interpret Russian Shahid drone “running.” Valadisalav Kosinik-Community, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, Later confirmed The polish and NATO jet fighters used weapons to bottom Russia’s drone.
Putin, clearly, is deliberately playing Wargame in Poland. Their message aims to ratio Washington and Brussels on Ukraine’s support. This is still another example trying to tell NATO what his army has failed to achieve in the active battlefields active in Donbas, Kherson and Zaporizhjia.
It was also a sign for President Trump, which last week Polish meeting with President Karol Navarki In the White House. In response to a reporter’s question, Trump said, “We will live in Poland. We are aligning a lot with Poland.” He later said that more American soldiers in Pentagon Poland were ready to “if they wanted.
Team Kremlin, like we Warned last monthThe team continues to give the middle finger to Trump. Putin is not interested in permanent peace. He is only interested in the total Ukrainian capitulation – and also in the expansion of the entire capitulation of NATO. The incidents of Tuesday’s drone in Poland were just another example of Moscow’s intention to play Trump’s White House.
Poland, however, was not a fool. Already, the annual Russian and Belarusian Zapad to start from joint military exercise on September 12 and end on 16 September,Warsaw decidedTo close your border with Belarus. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslav Sikorky warned that “Moscow should be treated with ‘fatal severity’.”
Tuesday’s drone attacks fulfilled Sikorski’s warning. Moscow is now pushing the envelope beyond its ongoing cloak-end-digar Hybrid war Against Europe. Russian sabotage, murders, and the United Kingdom and Poland attempts to bomb the air fraters are now involved in rapidly direct kinetic attacks.
Nevertheless, the possibility of Putin’s war game is only deeper than that. AsDan Liniaus pointedOn X, due to Moscow’s drone attack, Europe’s “political cohesion” and “Washington’s resolution” are deep than to test. It was also a possible practice to test NATO’s reactions to the drone.
As Linnius notes, Putin’s “potential growth” in Poland was calibrated for the crop [military] Data and testing [NATO defenses]”Timing is important and also important here. Data shine and learned lessons are likely to be included in Moscow and Minsk’s joint zapad military exercises and training next week.
Moscow continued himself on the basis of war with NATO. In particular, last week, Russian Security Council Vice President Dimitri Medvedev announced thatKremlin will be firmIt has a range of 810 miles with Finland. At that time, Medvedev claimed that Moscow was to be ready for “unfortunate acts” from Helsinki.
In fact, it is NATO that needs to be ready for Putin to unrestrained acts. The Kremlin has long been put on his economy for war. And while the European Commission’s € 800 billionRearm Europe Plan-Tapity 2030There is a good start, it is almost not enough.
This is especially true since NATO General SecretaryMark Rute is warningHe can attack Putin NATO member-state-affected Poland, Finland or Baltic states within one or five years. Europe, especially in the context of protecting its important infrastructure, is not yet ready for the time of drones and ballistic war, which are being teased by Moscow against Ukraine.
Nor is America like this, Trump’sGolden dome missile defense systemThere is a good start to protect the motherland, but more requirement. The US lags behind in the production of artillery shells and other important monks. In addition, Sen Micha McConel (R-K) as Sen is fine, the US is spending less on military preparations in the case of inflation “[former Presidents] Carter or biden.
Europe, however, is not the only reason behind Putin’s drone attack on Poland last night. The possibility of Taiwan is also connected. We should not exempt or ignore that Russia’s kinetic attack on Poland came in Putin’s Shanghai and North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un with Kim Jong-un.
Putin’s axis of evil, as Trump said, is reallyConspiracy against AmericaUkraine Putin’s ground is zero. However, the ground of Shee in Taiwan is zero, and it can be very early compared to many expectations.
Rape. Joe Wilson (RS.C.) Was okay When he said Russia’s attack on Poland – a NATO colleague – “is a war of war”. We should start the response accordingly. Secondary ban against Russia will be a good start.
Washington also has to recognize another difficult truth. Putin’s Wargem in Poland is part of a very major war against the West. We are, as we have warned for three years, in oneConceptual warWith the axis of evil which is becoming more kinetic. And as Putin messaged last night, it will not go away on its own.
Mark tothWrite on national security and foreign policy. Colonel (Rit.) Jonathan SweetHe served 30 years as a military intelligence officer and led the US European Command Intelligence Engagement Division from 2012 to 2014.
