Saturday, March 12, 2022

War Day 17

Like the world needs this shit to happen:

A Soviet-era drone, apparently fired accidentally by Ukraine,  (...military experts say Ukraine is the only known current operator of the Tu-141) flew over two NATO-member countries, Romania and Hungary, before crashing in a third, Croatia. No one killed or injured (about 40 parked cars flattened) but Croatia is livid at NATO.

Nato, which exists in part to help protect and alert its member states from surprise occurrences such as this, said the alliance’s integrated air and missile defense had tracked the drone’s flight path. But Andrej Plenkovic, Croatian prime minister, said Nato reacted only after question were posed by journalists.

“We cannot tolerate this situation, nor should it have ever happened,” Plenkovic said while visiting the crash site.

No-ope.

“This was a pure and clear threat and both Nato and the EU should have reacted,” he said. “We will work to raise the readiness not only of us but of others as well. “

Yeh-ep.