Poland’s neo-con foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, has claimed that a NATO victory against Russian forces would be swift, due to the “overwhelming superiority” of its air forces, even without support from the United States. “If Russia attacked us and we took our gloves off, I think we would defeat Russia quite quickly. We have overwhelming superiority over Russia in air power. General, correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s something like 2,500 aircraft,” he said during a discussion at the Yalta European Strategy meeting in Kyiv on Saturday, reported the Independent. “Even without the US it’s still overwhelming, and I haven’t checked recently how many F-35s and JASSMs and all the deep-strike capabilities we have.”

Sikorski also proposed that NATO stage a major exercise close to Kaliningrad in the vain hope that it would draw Russian forces away from the front lines in Ukraine, reported Defense News. He claimed that Russia has lowered its defenses in the Kaliningrad region, which borders Poland and Lithuania, thus making it vulnerable.

“We should not be thinking about our confrontation with Russia only as being confined to Ukraine,” Sikorski said. “I was in Latvia just three days ago on a Polish base, we have a tank company there, and … there are no troops on the other side. We closely monitor, as you may imagine, the Kaliningrad exclave. There are hardly any troops there.”