Poland will demand that Russia provide explanations after a Russian missile violated NATO airspace on the night of 23-24 March.
Turkey smoked an Su-24 a while ago, and Russia didn’t actually end up doing anything, so the appropriate response would have probably been “shoot down the cruise missile”.
This is just Putin testing the waters and checking to see what NATO will do in this scenario. I can guarantee they’d be a lot more careful if we just told them “Any Russian or Belarusian aircraft or missile in or near the Ukrainian AO will be tracked by NATO forces. Any Russian or Belarusian aircraft or missile that crosses from the Ukrainian AO into NATO airspace or territory will be shot down with prejudice.” And then did it. That is the sort of “red line” that Putin understands.
Reply: “We’ll do whatever we want because you let us do whatever we want.”
Great, now I have a visual of Puttypants as Cartman in my head.
“Fuck you, you’re subjects of the russian empire”.
Fuck russia.
Ukraine did it.
-Putin.
