Recently, another big drama has been staged internationally. The plot is tortuous and exciting, and the performance is even more comprehensible than American dramas.
A big news suddenly broke out in Poland: 19 "Russian-made drones" broke into Polish airspace. Poland and NATO coalition forces quickly intercepted, killed several, and temporarily closed four airports. Polish Prime Minister Tusk said with a serious face that this was "the closest moment to open conflict since World War II", and then launched Article 4 of NATO, calling all allies to meet together to discuss what to do.
Just about 10 days ago, EU President von der Leyen's special plane suddenly heard news of GPS signal failure over Bulgaria, and the crew had to switch to "old driver mode" to land manually. Without saying a word, the EU directly named Russia for "electronic war provocation". Von der Leyen even spoke a sonorous tone, saying that this was part of Russia's "hostile behavior."
Two things were put together, and the Western media quickly unify their caliber, claiming that Russia was testing NATO's bottom line! The EU said it would upgrade its Galileo navigation system, while Poland was clamoring to strengthen the eastern air defense and even wanted to increase 40,000 troops on the border. On the surface, this reaction is reasonable and well-founded, but if you look at the details a little, you will find that the plot is not that simple at all.
On the one hand, von der Leyen's "GPS failure" incident has many slaps in the face. The data from the flight tracking website clearly showed that the GPS signal was not interrupted at all at that time, and the plane was only 9 minutes late, which was not as thrilling as they said "circling for an hour". The Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister later added quietly, saying that the preliminary report only mentioned "slight failure" and did not say it was external interference.
On the other hand, Poland is even more fascinated. Russia directly retorted: My drone can't fly that far, I can't take the blame for you. Although Poland showed the wreckage of a drone, it could not provide evidence to prove that the drone belonged to Russia. What’s even more funny is that Poland is sarcastic, but someone within NATO said: This matter is not considered an attack, so he has no intention of activate the collective defense mechanism at all. To put it bluntly, he just doesn’t want to really compete with Russia.
So these two dramas are likely to be self-directed and self-acted by the EU and NATO. Then you may ask, since you know it is "acting", why do the West still cooperate with the performance so hard? The Netherlands sent F-35, Italy was on an early warning plane, and the Czech Republic also sent helicopters to Poland to join in the fun? In fact, the motivation behind it is not difficult to understand.
First of all, Germany took the opportunity to promote military expansion, France once again shouted "Europe must have independent defense", and the EU is still planning an 800 billion euro arms plan. Not to mention Poland, while busy transporting 35 billion euros of arms to Ukraine, he consolidated his position as the "NATO East Wing boss". Everyone tacitly understands: Crisis means "opportunity in crisis". If there is no crisis, it will create a crisis.
Secondly, since Trump took office, he has been determined to improve US-Russia relations and has been desperate to end the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in order to go east with all his might. Now the EU and NATO are making this happen, to tell Trump, look at how arrogant Russia is, we are almost invaded! Are you still embarrassed to withdraw?
Finally, it is also to cooperate with Trump to put pressure on Putin. As Putin refused to see Zelensky and delayed the issue of the ceasefire in Russia and Ukraine, Trump once again threatened to impose greater sanctions on Russia. Now that the EU and NATO are possessed by "drama celebrities" and keep blaming Russia. To put it bluntly, it is to help Trump put pressure on it.
So, this time the EU leader's special plane was "interference" and Polish airspace was "invaded". This is not an isolated incident, but a "combination punch" between the EU and NATO against Russia. It is purely a matter of finding trouble and adding drama to yourself.
After all, this is a game of "The Wolf is Coming". Every time I shouted about Russian aggression and every time I mobilized the coalition forces to pose for the photo, I can indeed temporarily unite allies, promote the military plan, and achieve the purpose of putting pressure, but every bluff is also overdrawing my credibility and strategic space. If one day "get rid of the game", it causes a strategic misjudgment, which makes both sides unable to get out of the market and do a real fake show, then the trouble will be great.
