{"id":449334,"date":"2025-09-25T02:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449334\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T02:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:13:12","slug":"europe-is-at-war-with-russia-whether-it-likes-it-or-not-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449334\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe is at war with Russia, whether it likes it or not \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then, in the first half of this year, the attacks declined significantly, likely reflecting Moscow\u2019s assessment that U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s return to office would weaken support for Ukraine. And, indeed, it did \u2014 Washington ended its military and economic assistance to Ukraine and sought a diplomatic conclusion to the war that accepts many of Moscow\u2019s conditions.<\/p>\n<p>But even as the U.S. shifted course, Europe\u2019s commitment to Ukraine has remained steadfast \u2014 and even increased: Key European countries are now seriously discussing the deployment of a significant security force in Ukraine once fighting ends; European governments, led by Germany, are sending large amounts of weapons to Ukraine \u2014 including some bought from the U.S.; financial support for the country\u2019s economy and rapidly expanding defense industry is growing; additional sanctions are in the offing; and the EU is seriously considering seizing Russia\u2019s frozen assets.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with such staunch commitment, Putin is now pushing even harder.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s probably no accident this all started after the Russian leader\u2019s Alaska meeting with Trump, where he assessed the U.S. was unlikely to resist further escalation from Moscow. And clearly, escalation there has been: Since that meeting, Russia\u2019s bombing of Ukraine has intensified\u2014 including the largest drone and missile attack of the war, which came in early September. And even as his military efforts inside Ukraine grew increasingly brazen, Putin decided to test Europe and NATO.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2236765521-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7219704\"  \/>Another action is to make clear that any further Russian incursion into European airspace, territory or maritime domain will lead to military action designed to destroy or disable the violating system in question. | Federico Gambarini\/Picture Alliance via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>First, Russia sent 19 drones across the Polish border on Sept. 10, followed by another drone crossing the Romanian border a few days later. Then, last week, three Russian MiG-31 warplanes crossed into Estonian airspace and loitered for 12 minutes (Though used as an interceptor, the MiG-31 is capable of carrying and launching the Kinzhal hypersonic missile that Russia has repeatedly used against Ukraine).<\/p>\n<p>In all three instances, European forces met the military test of effectively neutralizing the threat, including shooting down some of the drones headed toward an air base in Poland. But NATO countries failed the political test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Then, in the first half of this year, the attacks declined significantly, likely reflecting Moscow\u2019s assessment that U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[12915,2594,768,473,32,2595,6562,77074,660,2597,2821,332,657,49,333,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-449334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-aid-and-development","9":"tag-air-defense","10":"tag-borders","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-drones","14":"tag-eu27","15":"tag-from-across-the-pond","16":"tag-kremlin","17":"tag-military","18":"tag-nato","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-ukraine","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-vladimir-putin","23":"tag-war","24":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115262522398120635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449334","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=449334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}