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Poland shoots down drones in its airspace during Russia’s Ukraine attack, calls violation act of aggression (www.reuters.com)

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

No - this is about credible defense policy. As such, all that needs to be done is to adhere to the lines, and then actually and promptly follow through. Have a clear and credible path of escalation:

notify Russia that any aircraft, drones, or missiles that cross from Russian or Belarusian airspace into any NATO airspace will be shot down, without warning
shoot down, without warning, any aircraft, drones, or missiles that cross from Russian or Belarusian airspace into any NATO airspace
notify Russia that any additional intrusions will be viewed as attacks, and that any subsequent intrusions will have their launch points or airbases rendered mission-ineffective
render any airbases or launch points that are the origin of subsequent intrusions mission-ineffective

This is a level of realpolitik that the Russians will absolutely understand.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Totally agree but the first point should have been done 3 years ago and we should have been on point 3 since the first rockets fell in Poland which was like 2 years ago. Now we should be on point 4, not starting to think about the first one.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I agree completely. Biden’s lead-in to the invasion was, to be frank, a brilliantly adept usage and dissemination of intelligence.

And then he, on the advice of the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned, unforgivably Kissinger-esque, and idiotically geopolitically myopic Jake Sullivan, slow walked fucking everything after that point, because they were too busy pissing their pants at the ghost of USSR past to realize that Russia is a shadow of its former self, and relies on blustering and sword-rattling as primary geopolitical tactics, but doesn’t actually have the capacity to back any of it up.