NATO considers shooting down Russian missiles.

Joey Biden said the war started with Russian aggression on Feb 24 2022.

Most people outside the US don't believe that, including Europeans in NATO.

 

I don’t think you know what WWIII looks like. Or you think Russia is going to nuke everyone? That’s still not WWIII that’s Nuclear Holocaust. Big difference. Learn the terminology please

 

Wrong, just completely wrong. According to international law ALL nations have the right to intercept and if necessary shoot down/engage unauthorized intrusions into their domestic airspace. (Remember the Chinese balloon incident?) So shooting down or threatening to shoot down Russian missiles that enter Polish airspace without prior permission? Is entirely legal. And there's not a dam thing Russia can or will do about it if it happens again in the future.

Threatening to shoot down Russian missiles in Ukrainian airspace? That's a separate issue. But even then Poland might be able to justify that action in (very limited) circumstances if they believe the missile is about to cross into Polish airspace and Ukrainians don't object. But in reality? The story is storm in a tea cup because 99% of the targets Russia might be interested in intercepting are not located directly on or immediately proximate to the Ukrainian/Polish frontier. So even if Poland did shoot down the occasional Russian missile just inside Ukrainian airspace on the basis that it appeared to be at risk of entering it's own airspace? The impact on Russia's ability to prosecute the war is next to zero.

As for the reasons Russia might try to fire missiles into Polish airspace?

1) Because its either improves time of flight (acts as a short cut) to targets inside Ukraine that are close to the border;
2) It helps its missiles avoid Ukrainian air defenses (because then Ukraine would have to fire into Polish airspace to intercept them).
3) It wants to test Poland's readiness and willingness to respond and feel out its NATO based air defense systems.

 

This is fine. Poland should shoot down any Russian missiles which are near it's borders as it is clearly a threat.

 

No one here has posted a comprehensive analysis regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine or the proper strategy moving forward. Nothing but inane banter back and forth.

Can anyone explain why they believe we should or should not get directly involved? What has taken place and what is to come? What are the likely military considerations? What should be done? Have any of you analyzed the field and developed an understanding of the theater of operations?

 

Eastern Ukraine consider RuZzians aggressors and are supportive of EU and NATO.

 

Zoom_copter don't sweat it. Lil Mike and Tipper are Russian plants. They aren't American. They are on here to spread Russian propaganda. Yang too.

 

What terminology? You got NATO countries going to war with you, that is WWIII.

 

I like your last sentence. Very true.

 

MSNBC does have conservatives - joe scarborough, nicolle Wallace, michael steele, Charlie Sykes and many more.

 

NATO VS Russia is not WWIII

 

What is NATO? A couple guys at a bar?

 

It’s a coalition. A coalition doesn’t equal WWIII. Know what the key word in WWIII is?

 

As usual total BS and lie.

 

You left out Jens Stoltenberg. (See post 51)

 

Yeah...I've pretty much gathered that.

 

Pray tell.

 

Provide you impeccable source viskochem....Kharkiv, Kherson, ....all pro EU/NATO .....viskochem....same as occupied territories.....viskochem.....hahaha.

You just don't like hearing it.

 

So what now with Baltic being a NATO lake?

RuZzians won't be able to crack a fart without being heard, seen, harrassed?


Baltic to Black Sea...has a nice ring to it?

 

its World buddy. Meant to indicate the full scale and severity of the conflict. NATO vs Russia would not entail either scale or severity, a point made pretty apparent given Russia’s performance and deterioration against little ol Ukraine who I hear is all out of soldiers and ammo but is still wiping out Russians as fast as ever.

 

I may not have been clear on that. The article, and the OP were about Poland shooting down missiles that were not in Polish airspace; missiles in Ukraine. Obviously Poland has the right to shoot down missiles in Polish airspace.

 

Actually they have posted a litany reasons on why this is the US's war too:

The administration supports it.
Russians are bad.
The World (Europe) supports it.
Putin is evil and Hitler
Russians will conquer the world (see Hitler) if we don't stop him

 

Lol!

 

I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult to get approval from Ukraine to shoot down missiles in Ukrainian airspace. I'm actually surprised they haven't received such permission already.

There is a very high likelihood we are going into Ukraine directly in the not-to-distant future. It is already in the works.

 

Why would Poland shoot down Russian missiles? They are not at war with Russia.

But you seem to think NATO will be soon. How does that work exactly, are we going to just declare war on Russia and invade? And what would be the reason?