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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. A few mysteries remain about the Russian drones that swarmed into Poland’s skies Wednesday night, but a few things are all but certain—none of them pleasant—about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intentions and President Donald Trump’s response. First, it’s worth...
Continue Reading on https://slate.com/Sign up for National Security, a newsletter featuring coverage of rising authoritarianism, military intelligence, and geopolitical conflicts. Early this morning, Russia sent a swarm of drones into Poland. The crisis of the NATO alliance that people on both sides of the Atlantic have been denying or trying to put off is now here: This is the moment when the world finds out whether the United...
Continue Reading on https://www.theatlantic.comIn a blatant bid to spark Western fears of World War Three, Russia just sent nearly two dozen drones deep into Poland — a gambit that demands the toughest practical response. Polish and NATO jets had to launch to protect Polish airspace and neutralize Moscow’s incursion: However “accidental” the Kremlin tries to paint its violation, the clear point was to make President Donald Trump and other...
Continue Reading on https://nypost.com/opinion/It turns out that insulting the president's wife is a bad idea. Just after Donald Trump's November victory, Russian state media broadcast racy photos from Melania Trump's modeling career while the presenters stifled giggles. This was not well calculated to win over the Slovenian-American, who naturally sympathizes with Ukraine. As her husband remarked last month, "I go home and tell the first...
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