"The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them ... shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking ... such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area."
This is notable for what it doesn't include: anything beyond a vague agreement to "assist" as individually deemed necessary. If Russia were to invade Poland the rest of NATO could fulfill their Article 5 obligation by protesting strenuously.
Diplomats will, before taking any response, are going to consider a great deal of context. One imagines Russia will say the missles were mistargeted and this was an error, and the NATO diplomats will accept that, while strongly condeming the action.
If the response will be this pathetic, then you can rest assured that the next batch of missiles will "accidentally" land on the Polish airport that serves as a hub for military aid to Ukraine.
What do you expect them to do, send a rocket back? If the rockets hit anything of value, it would not be plausible to say that it was an accident anymore and then it's a an entirely different situation. Also it took 9 months for something like this to happen, if it happens again within a short time frame, then it's also different. For now, maybe they could retaliate with the equipment, like providing Ukraine with those fighter jets.
If it turns out to be a Russian missile, then I expect expedited weapons shipment as bare minimum. Ukraine needs long-range missiles to hit back and take out Russian military sites and critical infrastructure, tit for tat. The current situation with long-range missiles mirrors the situation with artillery in June. Underequipped Ukranian army suffered heavily under Russian fire, but after they got modern artillery, they successfully suppressed Russians, and instead of escalation that many feared, we got de-escalation: Russia eventually abandoned Kharkiv, Izyum, Kherson. Long-range missiles, modern jets and modern tanks are needed to push them back even more. Battlefield victory over Russia is the only way to lasting peace.
From the very first moment everything about this incident looked like an accident. Turns out Poland's president thinks the same.
Surely its way more likely that Ukrainian air defense missiles landed in Poland by accident than that Russia would deliberately transport them close to Poland to be able to fire them at Poland civilians.
You might wanna make a honest bias reality check after this one.
Could this be a result of Russian missiles becoming less accurate due to manufacturing issues? I would think they would have shot off all their oldest stuff first but maybe not.
Anyway NATO did not step in when they shot down that airliner so so I doubt they will do anything about this incident.
Poland has operational Patriot systems that are supposed to be protecting the eastern border from exactly this kind of attack, how'd this happen?
I guess it'll take more than that to protect every inch of NATO territory.
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edit: added qualification
However, if it was my family who died I might feel otherwise.
-- Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_17120.ht...
This is notable for what it doesn't include: anything beyond a vague agreement to "assist" as individually deemed necessary. If Russia were to invade Poland the rest of NATO could fulfill their Article 5 obligation by protesting strenuously.
From the very first moment everything about this incident looked like an accident. Turns out Poland's president thinks the same. Surely its way more likely that Ukrainian air defense missiles landed in Poland by accident than that Russia would deliberately transport them close to Poland to be able to fire them at Poland civilians.
You might wanna make a honest bias reality check after this one.
Anyway NATO did not step in when they shot down that airliner so so I doubt they will do anything about this incident.