Make no mistake: the firing of at least 19 drones into Poland was not some kind of hapless mistake by Russia. This was a deliberate act of aggression by the Kremlin.

It is designed to stoke tensions among Western allies and test the resolve of Nato at a time when its most powerful nation – the United States – is led by a weak and self-absorbed president who seems in such thrall to dictatorship as he shreds his own nation’s democratic foundations.

You would have to be astonishingly naive – or a pathetic Kremlin patsy – to fall for claims that these drones suffered technical malfunction to their navigation systems, causing them to stray deep into Poland’s airspace while avoiding the nearby skies over Moscow’s stooges in Hungary and Slovakia.

Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, is right to warn that the prospect of Russia’s war in Ukraine escalating into a wider military conflict is “closer than at any time since the Second World War”.

Yet this attack highlights again the issue upon which our security and democracies depend: whether the West will wake up to the scale of threat unfolding before our eyes........

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