NATO was tracking, from launch in Ukraine to the explosion in Poland, the Ukrainian surface-to-air missile that killed two civilians in Poland, as explained by Scott Ritter in his RT article, “NATO’s Hair Trigger: The Polish Missile Incident Was a Close Brush with Nuclear Annihilation.”
“Let there be no doubt—NATO was aware that the missile ... was a Ukrainian surface-to-air missile the moment it was launched. The airspace over Ukraine is one of the most highly-monitored locations in the world.” So, knowing in real time the actual situation, what kind of game was being played at NATO headquarters from Tuesday to Wednesday this week, with the moves to escalate against Russia—including NATO challenging Russia’s Air Force over Ukraine?
Ritter states that this episode “exposed an ugly reality about the eastern reaches of NATO today.… [T]he new upstarts in Eastern Europe seem hell-bent on finding a mechanism that will justify NATO intervention in Ukraine.... [T]he Russophobic officials that dominate the governments of Poland and the three Baltic republics act like lemmings, running toward the Ukrainian cliff, oblivious to their fate as they chase the fantasy of NATO defeating Russia on a European battlefield.”