From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

https://japantoday.com/category/world/russia-rains-drones-and-missiles-on-western-ukraine-poland-scrambles-aircraft

NATO member Poland said it scrambled aircraft early on Sunday
to ensure its air safety after Russia launched airstrikes on
Ukraine, with Ukrainian officials reporting missiles and drones
raining down on the Lviv region near the Polish border.

"Polish and allied aircraft are operating in our airspace,
while ground-based air defence and radar reconnaissance systems
have been brought to the highest state of readiness,"
Poland's operational command said in a post on X.

Eastern-flank NATO members are on high alert after Poland
shot down suspected Russian drones in its airspace in September
and drone sightings and air incursions, including in Copenhagen
and Munich, have led to chaos in European aviation.

Lithuania's airport in Vilnius was closed for several hours
overnight after reports of a possible series of balloons heading
towards the airport late on Saturday.

According to flight tracking service Flightradar24, early on
Sunday, commercial flights were using routings typically used
when Poland's Lublin and Rzeszow airports near the border with
Ukraine were closed.

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This is slowly escalating out of control.

Vlad clearly intends to press and press and
press until he gets some "incident" that will
justify pushing troops into Poland and the
Baltics. They will move in, entrench, have
heavy support, and then find another excuse
to move forwards again.

The only real policy is that ANY Russian assets
or troops crossing NATO borders gets blasted
immediately. This is dangerous, but it's the
only way - the only thing Vlad will respect.

NATO should have increased its budget WAY back,
even before Trump prompted them.

But they figured it's all be OK forever ...
spend the money on socialist 'free stuff'
and 'green' and 'immigrants' and tranny
festivals ....

Clue - it's NEVER ok forever. To ensure peace
you must prepare for war. Sorry, but that's
how it works with humans. Softies get SQUASHED.

If Joe or K had been elected ... wow ... Vlad
would have all of Europe by now.

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