Oso planning to go pro
This also further illustrates that 0.0 deals whatsoever should be put on the table. As someone wrote in the WSJ today, Ukraine has to win this because Putin's ambitions will never change. He wants a Soviet empire, period. He has now broken Article 5.and continues to demonstrate his scumbaggery.
Putin is still the bad guy.
Tucker strongly disagrees.
Makes one wonder whether it was intentional, Putin trying to goad NATO into aggressive moves in order to shore up his own flagging support at home, or whether it was standard Russian in competence.It will also be interesting to see what the GOP House does in terms of support for Ukraine. The loud mouth pro-Putin faction has already said they won't support any money for Ukraine, but I think there are enough GOP House Members to still pass additional support bills, presuming McCarthy (again, presumably) allows a vote.
My guess is it was an accident but it demonstrates how incompetent his military is which is obviously dangerous. Fortify the Polish border immediately.
I am seeing reports that possibly Ukrainian missile defenses may have knocked the incoming missiles off course. Not confirmed.
Makes one wonder whether it was intentional, Putin trying to goad NATO into aggressive moves in order to shore up his own flagging support at home, or whether it was standard Russian in competence.
That would make sense. Beyond the huge ramifications of bringing Poland into it, just look at a map. This was a village of 400 people in the middle of nowhere, an hour plus from any major settlement (and that settlement is smaller than Waukesha). There is zero to be gained from wasting missiles into a place like that, even if someone was into wanton violence and war crimes.However, its not terribly far (~100 km) from Lviv if missiles were launched from Belarus or the like
Russia is already wasting missiles it doesn't have on civilian targets in Ukraine instead of military targets. It's another symptom why they are losing this war badly. There will be a NATO response but probably measured.
Missiles are missiles, poles were killed.Accident? Probably.NATO response is still required.
What response would you consider appropriate?
So it was a Ukranian missile that went astray? Okay.......weird.
Nothing short of nuclear.
Exactly. If Putin HAD done something like this, we'd have expressed outrage, put pressure on Russia's allies, try to punish them more financially, give more weapons to Poland and other NATO countries, etc. But unless Putin goes nuclear, we're not going to even think about responding militarily. Nor should we.
Any actual aggression towards the Poles should be matched ten-fold, but let's be honest, the guy has his hands full with Ukraine.