Posted on 09/10/2025 10:19:23 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump reacted Wednesday with a degree of bemusement toward Russia’s drone incursion into Poland, a NATO member that Trump has previously vowed to defend amid heightened tensions with Moscow.
“What’s with Russia violating Poland’s airspace with drones?” Trump asked in a short post on Truth Social. “Here we go!” The brief mention of the incident — and the vague suggestion of continued fallout — came as US officials were digesting the overnight events, when more than a dozen Russian drones entered Polish airspace, spurring a response from NATO to scramble fighter jets to shoot them down.
The incident amounted to a striking escalation of Russia’s conflict in neighboring Ukraine, which Trump has sought unsuccessfully to end. Twenty-six days after his high-profile meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, there appears to be little progress toward ending the war.
Amid growing frustration with Putin, Trump has said he’s ready to apply new sanctions on Moscow, but hasn’t detailed what measures he’s considering. And, so far, he hasn’t applied any new punishments beyond an additional trade penalty on India over its transactions with Russia. According to the White House, Trump is planning to speak later Wednesday with Poland’s president, who he met in the Oval Office last week.
In that session, Trump pledged his continued support for Poland, and even said he’d be open to sending additional US troops to the country amid questions of his commitment to an American military presence along NATO’s eastern flank. “We’ll put more there if they want,” Trump said during his talks with Karol Nawrocki. “But they’ve long wanted to have a larger presence. We have some countries that have more — not too many. But no, they’ll be staying in Poland. We’re very much aligned with Poland.”
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NATO should have dissolved when the Warsaw Pact did.
“This country sent untold, and unaccounted-for billions of dollars and weapons to Ukraine....”
A stale talking point. There are no unaccounted billions. Most the aid was either in the former of weapons, the preponderenc of which were out-dated, and money, most of which went right back to the US in the form of weapons purchases.
да, товарищ.
That's bullshit propaganda and you should be ashamed to even say it. You have no actual proof where any of those weapons or money ended up, so don't try to run with that crap. Did Zelensky personally tell you that?
So CIA enters Russia and flies drones into Poland. This is a black flag if ever there was one.
Does anyone really believe that Putin wants war with NATO?
BONKERS
Remember when Democrats and Republicans alike talked of a "peace dividend" now that the Cold War was over? And only disagreed what to with the money?
Instead we got more NATO, involvement in the Yugoslavia situation, and lots of money made by the merchants of death.
And seriously ... do you really think we need to defend "freedom" in a Europe that has repudiated the very concept of freedom (even if they still hate Russia).
Let's get out of the "great game" already.
Here's the cold, hard truth as of July 2025, and it's from the AP no less:
Pentagon pause on arms shipments to Ukraine part of a global review of pressures on stockpiles
So stop spreading lies.
The trouble with never ending Russia war mongering is that they eventually run out of people.
He has said other things that seem impetuous and ill informed
In this case, they may or may not have been “Russian “ drones ( as in, launched by Russia) but public statements by several political and defense officials and analysis that I think has good military information…suggest several different scenarios
None of which is a deliberate Russian launch of drones deep into Poland or for targeting anything in Poland
We’re passing record high defense budgets.
Peace dividends were a fantasy.
Yeah, I think Europe is a bulwark against the Russian Huns.
“Yeah, I think Europe is a bulwark against the Russian Huns.”
35 or even 30 years ago they were, but not now. The Euros are a strategic liabilty. Except for Poland, they are useless.
OK, so how do you defend Poland?
“OK, so how do you defend Poland?”
As usual, we’ll get stuck with the heavy lifting. Good old Uncle Sucker again.
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