Poland Scrambles Jets and Air Defenses as Russia Strikes Ukraine Near Border
✈️ NATO — Poland scrambles jets as Russia strikes; Washington's eyes are elsewhere. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Poland's scramble is protocol — but lands while CENTCOM is committed to Hormuz and Europe is absorbing US NATO gaps. Every Russian strike near Polish airspace tests whether the eastern flank holds without US bandwidth. Kaliningrad and Belarus make Poland the actor most exposed when Washington is stretched across three theaters simultaneously.
