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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Poland invokes the NATO Treaty's consultation provisions after the alliance scrambles fighter jets to shoot down a Russian drone incursion into its airspace.

Is this a test of the West by Vladimir Putin or maybe a warning?

Meantime, Donald Trump says he's almost ready, but not quite, to impose new sanctions on

Russian energy. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by

my colleagues editorial board members, Kate Batchelder O'Dellell and Julian Melcher calling in from a reporting trip to eastern Ukraine.

Poland has now called on Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Alliance requiring allies to consult when one of them is facing a threat to its territorial integrity.

That comes after at least

19 Russian drones flew into Polish airspace last week. The NATO forces responding to that

incursion included Polish F-16 fighter jets, Dutch F-35s, German Patriot Air Defenses, and

more, according to NATO's Secretary General. Some of the drones downed, apparently are cheap dummy drones on arms, sometimes made of wood

and foam.

Julian, what's your read of what Vladimir Putin is up to?

Yes, I think he's trying two things here.

One of them is to test NATO and see what their response is.

I think the other one is this is obviously a pretty serious event that just happened. I think that NATO countries are rightly concerned,

but right now Ukraine really needs Western air defense to help protect its skies. And Putin may be

hoping that the West feels like it needs to save those air defense

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