The day after the big scare, Poland locks down and the big European teams also move .
The government has sent 40,000 troops to the borders with Russia and Belarus . Officially, this is a response to the joint Minsk-Moscow exercises, Zapad-25. Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk recalled that these exercises, "offensive" in nature, were intended to prepare for the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. According to informed sources, the number of Polish soldiers deployed increased after the Russian drone attack (denied by Moscow).
And major European countries are also taking action. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer first called German Chancellor Frederich Merz, then French President Emmanuel Macron: the leaders agreed on the need to "strengthen the Atlantic Alliance's defenses," especially because, as Merz previously emphasized, the Allied air defenses had indeed worked, but "evidently not as they should have," given "the entry of such a large number of drones."
The allies are not holding back. London immediately expressed its willingness to deploy a squadron of Typhoons to Poland and make them available to the NATO defense system. Berlin quickly announced that it would "extend and expand" its role in the air surveillance program, increasing the number of Eurofighters deployed to four and extending their mission until the end of the year. Macron announced that Paris would mobilize three Rafale fighters to "contribute to the protection of Polish airspace." The Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Sweden have also announced they will step up their airspace defense efforts. Nothing has emerged from the United States, where the Trump administration appears to continue its policy of disengagement from the European scene.
Meanwhile, the South Korean presidency of the Security Council has announced that it will meet tomorrow at 3:00 PM local time (9:00 PM Italian time) . The Council is composed of five permanent members with veto power, divided into two geopolitically opposed groups: the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, allies of Poland and Ukraine, on one side, and Russia and China on the other .
And the North Atlantic Council, NATO's principal political decision-making body, changed the format of its weekly meeting on the same day to be held under Article 4 of the organization's founding treaty, which Warsaw has requested be activated. This stipulates that "the Parties shall consult each other whenever, in the opinion of either Party, the territorial integrity, political independence, or security of either Party is threatened."
(Unioneonline)