Russia's plans resemble cold -war ones. “The Kremlin is testing NATO because the US is cutting out”

You can show the relationship between Russian attempts to test NATO airspace safety in Eastern Europe and American cuts of expenditure on security support in the Baltic countries – believes the Canadian expert, Professor Sean Maloney.

“Russian airspace violations of NATO countries are part of the information war imposed in NATO, designed to undermine our will (…) and to understand our intentions to oppose Russian goals in Europe and elsewhere” – said Maloney, a historian of Royal Military College, Canadian military university, quoted on Tuesday in public analysis in public analysis in public analysis in public analysis in public analysis in public analysis in public analysis in public analysis in public analysis in public analysis in public analysis in public analysis in public analysis in public analysis in public analysis in public analysis in public analysis the broadcast CBC.

CBC, recalling violations of NATO countries by Russia, emphasized that analysts consider these activities to be part of NATO's ability testing. Maloney, however, drew attention to a broader political context and referred to the US decision to limit expenditure on support for the security of the Baltic countries, which was reported on September 4 this year. “I am more worried about what it means as a message, not as information about what equipment is delivered,” said Maloney.

This is a bad message, especially when it comes to the opponents we deal with. Each form of weakness will be used in the information sphere, “said Maloney.

He emphasized that Russian actions are taken from the plans created during the Cold War.

CBC also drew attention to a recent analysis in which Torrey Taussig, director of Transatlantic Security Initiative at the American Think-Tank Atlantic Council emphasized that Russian activities are intended. He added that “if the West does not respond to this attack, Putin would achieve a double strategic benefit. His goal is to create a crisis of trust that will violate NATO unity and the credibility of the possibility of deterrent.”

After the violations of the airspace by Russian drones over Poland and Romania, NATO strengthened the air defense on the eastern flank. CBC pointed out that Trump initially underestimated Russian drones on Poland, talking about a possible mistake. The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on X quoted the entry, in which he wrote that “we would also like the drone attack on Poland to be a mistake. But it was not. And we know it.”

On Monday, after appearing at the UN Security Council, Deputy Prime Minister Radosław Sikorski said that “we will not give a hard declaration, what we would do and what we would not do, but here it was a warning that if it was over the Natowski territory and if the wreck falls on the Natural territory, in the light of international law we acted in our own defense and Russia will not have the right to prevent.”

From Toronto Anna Lach (PAP)

Lach/ zm/