• BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
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    7 days ago

    There are degrees, starting world wars over a fighter getting shot down or drones being in the wrong airspace is a huge overreaction.

    Whether and how they would respond to an invasion of a NATO member is untested.

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      7 days ago

      Your reaction is what I’m talking about, there is 0 chances of world war starting from someone destroying a drone over their own territory, actually it lowers the chances of world war. Yet there are nations that won’t even defend their territory and ones that would. You can’t negotiate with an empire over not becoming another colony.

      It might look insignificant, it just shows weakness and that it’s acceptable to attack NATO members as long as it’s light/small-scale, at worst you’ll get strong words in return.

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            7 days ago

            That’s really not clear from your post. You make the point yourself that Turkey is a NATO member. There’s an argument to be made that it’s not worth Poland/Romania showing their capabilities shooting down drones.