Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt told Newsmax that Russian incursions into NATO territory have the world on an “escalatory path.”
Holt told “American Agenda” on Monday that Russian flights over Estonia and Poland are exceedingly dangerous. “The worry here is that we’re on an escalatory path, and the closer and closer that these air forces get to each other, it’s just going to take one miscalculation, and we could be off to a very dark and bad place.”
He explained the issue isn’t as much the specific incidents but the broader intent behind them. “The worry here is not that three circa 1974 Russian aircraft may have had an incursion into Estonian airspace. The NATO air policing mission is quite competent and quite ready, and if it’s a probing thing, fine.”
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