I read it and did not read a threat by Russia to Poland.
I think the headline is false.
“I read it and did not read a threat by Russia to Poland.”
I agree. As much as the Neocons want WW3 (since they know the only other option is losing in Ukraine), Russia prefers to NOT blow up the world.
And, by the way, Kaliningrad looks to be winding down, thanks to the EU WISELY stepping back, for once. Sounds like they also don’t want WW3...just the Neocons.
I read it and did not read a threat by Russia to Poland.
This is because it is not there, so simple.
Now, the Polish unit decimated in Severonetsk appears not to be random volunteers but rather an organized group of Polish special forces, under command of a Polish colonel. I’d guess exact details on it would be coming out within weeks, perhaps days.
Here we have the “Major Escalation” as being from one’s point of view. For the Poles, I believe that it can be seen as a potential major affect. Read this leading paragraph and from being a Pole, whom remembers the slaughter of its leading academics, politicians, and officer corps by the Soviet at the Kaytn Forest: “The warning comes amid soaring tensions with the Nato-member country after Moscow claimed it has removed a Polish flag from a memorial site commemorating the killing of thousands of Poles in the Soviet Union.”
The Poles will see it as a major insult and a warning/provocation by Putin to NOT have any thought of backing Ukraine.
The major point of contention is whether or not the Russians have the strength and capability to launch an invasion of Lithuania and/or Poland. And whether or not the Putin’s allied Belorus president & government will aid Putin in such an attack.