{"id":444432,"date":"2025-09-23T00:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T00:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/444432\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T00:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T00:08:10","slug":"you-have-been-warned-so-dont-whine-if-your-jets-are-shot-down-in-nato-airspace-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/444432\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You have been warned\u2019 so don\u2019t \u2018whine\u2019 if your jets are shot down in NATO airspace \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incursion into Estonia came after Russia sent drones into both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-drone-nato-incursions-poland-gaps-western-arsenal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poland<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-top-diplomat-decries-russias-breach-of-romanian-airspace\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romania<\/a> earlier this month, putting NATO on high alert across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/poland-will-shoot-down-encroaching-russian-aircraft-warns-pm-tusk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said Monday<\/a> that Warsaw will shoot down enemy aircraft that enter Polish airspace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be very clear. We will make a decision to shoot down flying objects without discussion when they violate our territory and fly over Poland. There is no room for debate here,\u201d Tusk told a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, Sikorski sent a further barb Moscow&#8217;s way in New York: &#8220;We know you don&#8217;t care for international law, and you are incapable of living in peace with your neighbors. Your insane nationalism contains a lust for domination that will not cease until you realize that the age of empires is over and that your empire will not be rebuilt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The multiple incursions into NATO territory have led the EU to launch talks on creating a so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/estonia-ukraine-meet-drone-wall-proposal-airspace-russia-warplanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drone wall<\/a> to defend Europe&#8217;s eastern border against Moscow. Seven EU member countries are set to discuss the defensive gambit in an online meeting with the European Commission and Ukraine on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incursion into Estonia came after Russia sent drones into both Poland and Romania earlier this month, putting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[18992,768,5898,2595,2597,2598,770,14792,1438,332,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-444432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-airspace","9":"tag-borders","10":"tag-donald-tusk","11":"tag-drones","12":"tag-military","13":"tag-missiles","14":"tag-poland","15":"tag-radoslaw-sikorski","16":"tag-romania","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115250705772080393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}