• lud@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Of course but there is always the risk that Russia gets mad enough that it fires missiles at Poland.

    Logic like that doesn’t really work on an international scale with missiles. It’s not like it’s guaranteed that Russia will react with “Damnit, they are technically correct so I guess we will do nothing”

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      4 months ago

      Russia gets mad enough that it fires missiles at Poland.

      Poland is a NATO member. If they attacked Poland, it’s game over for Russia. NATO, mostly the US really, would curbstomp them so hard.

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        4 months ago

        Maybe.

        NATO obviously doesn’t want to get involved so it’s quite likely they will do jack shit if just a couple of missiles hit Poland.

        People here always have such a weird superiority complex when it comes to NATO. Yes NATO would likely win in the end but LOTS of people would die in the process.

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      4 months ago

      The risk is there no mater what Poland does. Russian missiles already fell on Polish land. If russia could do more they’d already do that.

      Poland can just declare that they are protecting from stray missiles before they enter their airspace. What are russians going to do? Fire missiles at NATO country? At the very least, they’d just get massive wall of AA along the Polish border shooting down missiles even deeper in Ukraine.

      Remember that russia already claimed that there is NATO crew manning the AA systems in Ukraine. Following their propaganda, this would actually be deescalation.

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        4 months ago

        Yes, but there are obviously reasons for not doing it. Otherwise they would already be doing that.

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          4 months ago

          I’d say that big concern is AA missiles falling on Ukraine. It opens a can of worms where technically Polish-operated missile might kill citizens of Ukraine. Nothing is 100% failsafe. They probably need to flash out all possible eventualities and it’s not risk-free politically, so it requires someone motivated enough to push the thing through.