Russia Tested NATO in Poland. NATO Flunked.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/poland-nato-russia-drones/684162/?gift=_w-BCqerDhA2rtvT-k2RqNxCrJfWlokky0xqwQYlqVY

by rezwenn

5 comments

  1. What’ya mean it flunked, jets were scrambled, the 19-23 drones were taken down in various ways, alarms were raised, US opinions were ignored, air space was closed, leaders got talking FAST. The previous violations may have been “mistakes” but this one clearly wasn’t and the response is solid. Of course, the first response USUALLY isn’t to shoot any flying craft that shows up on your radar. That sounds dangerous to civilians, doesn’t it? Stupid article.

  2. At this point, It should be pretty obvious to everyone that Russia wants to start a larger scale conflict.

  3. In my opinion, Poland and NATO were unprepared. The response wasn’t terrible but not great either. The lack of a strong, appropriate response afterwards is also very disappointing.

    They were hunting these small drones with F16s and F35s all night long. It appears that they also couldn’t locate many of them thus why some of them were only discovered the day after.

    Why didn’t Poland allocate a few mobile anti drone crews equipped with AA weapons and EW hammers by the border with Belarus? Especially when there have been multiple probes in the past.

    Seeing Poland ask for Ukraine’s help today in countering drones and missiles is further proof that they didn’t learn from Ukraine’s experience in the past 3.5 years. They just assumed Russia wouldn’t escalate at this level.

    I hope this is a wake up call for all European countries to start taking their air defense much more seriously. NATO also needs to start implementing its own version of hybrid warfare against Russia. Otherwise, expect more Russian drone and missile escalation in the future.

  4. I suppose it was also a messaging. Russia basically told Poles not to send troops – by demonstrating that their anti-air system wasn’t perfectized (yet).

  5. Not really sure what that supposed to mean. Russia tested Poland’s border. They will do it more. US has nothing to do with it. NATO has to grow some balls. They are too nice. That’s all it is…

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