Source: The American Conservative
by Anatol Lieven
“The Russian fighters that briefly entered Estonian airspace last Friday and the drones that flew into Polish and Romanian airspace earlier are very unlikely to have been an accident, but they were not an ‘attack.’ The drones were unarmed decoys, nobody was hurt, and the only damage was done when one was shot down by Polish air defenses. They may have been intended as a test of those defenses; they were almost certainly intended as a warning — a warning above all against British and European plans to deploy a ‘reassurance force’ to Ukraine after a peace settlement. This has been repeatedly and categorically rejected by the Russian government, but continues to be urged by some European governments with a blind determination that suggests that, rather than making a contribution to peace, they are actually interested in blocking any viable peace settlement.” (09/26/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-russian-air-incursions-are-a-warning-to-europe/