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Rep.Don Bacon (R-NE), who is also a retired Air Force general, pulled no punches on Wednesday in blaming the Trump administration for Russia’s attack on Poland Tuesday night.
Bacon shared a report on the attack, which included some 19 drone incursions into Polish airspace, and added, “Russia continues to escalate in its failed invasion of its neighbor, Ukraine. The Russians flew multiple drones over Poland, and many were shot down.”
“The Administration’s policy towards Russia is weak and vacillating, and Putin is taking advantage of it,” Bacon concluded.
Bacon has long been a critic of President Donald Trump’s approach to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On Tuesday, he told CNN, “We’ve tried to be-, hoping the president would get to the right spot on Russia and Ukraine, and he’s not. And, you know, Biden was weak. Biden’s actions in Afghanistan helped fuel this thing with Ukraine. But what I see with this president is even worse.”
Fox News’ chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin also laid some of the blame on the Trump administration, calling out the Pentagon’s recent move to cut of security training and funding to NATO allies bordering Russia.
“It’s notable that the NATO response to Russia’s drone incursion across the border into Poland makes no mention of US military assistance to defend Poland: Rutte mentions Polish F16s, Dutch F35s, Italian AWACS, and German Patriots. Russia’s testing of NATO airspace to test NATO’s response comes just days after the Pentagon informed NATO Allies bordering Russia that the US will halt training and security funding to them,” Griffin wrote on X.
NATO invoked Article 4 of the treaty following the Russian attacks on Poland, while Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday, “This situation brings us the closest we have been to open conflict since World War II.”
NATO’s Article 4 is a precursor to larger military action and reads, “The Parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened.”
