>NATO can probably defend itself. According to current Potus shooting at russian hardware would be an escalation. US forbade NATO from shooting down russian dr

>NATO can probably defend itself. According to current Potus shooting at russian hardware would be an escalation. US forbade NATO from shooting down russian drones/missiles crossing NATO territory. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-drone-romania-e793c35a0df1679cfe89ac6612706c87 https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-drone-romania-... >deployed F-16 warplanes to monitor its airspace and issued text alerts https://www.politico.eu/article/romania-confirms-russian-drones-air-space-debris-ukraine-attacks/ https://www.politico.eu/article/romania-confirms-russian-dro... >Two Finnish Air Force F-18 jets were dispatched from a Romanian air base during the night to monitor the situation https://www.twz.com/nato-fighters-scrambled-as-russian-drone-violates-romanian-airspace https://www.twz.com/nato-fighters-scrambled-as-russian-drone... >“were identified by the German crews, including by visual contact, without an order from NATO to shoot them down,” Monitor, monitor, dont shoot. How about a cover up for russian KH-22 nuclear capable cruise missile crashing 300km deep inside NATO. It flew half way to Berlin before malfunctioning. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/military-object-found-polish-forest-was-russian-missile-media-2023-05-10/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/military-object-found-p... Officially it wasnt even spotted by NATO radars, unofficially Airforce was told to stand down and not even look for it. Was found by accident by a civil 6 months later. Purely coincidentally few weeks after this incident Germany got very eager to sent Poland a Patriot system.