As cautious as I like to be, I think this seems like a reasonable response and approach. It benefits Ukraine, even if it's marginal, and while Russia will argue it's an attempt to meddle directly in their war (Putin will find a reason to whine anyways), most of the world will see it as Romania attempting to protect their own land.

How could Putin even argue against this? By claiming Romania has no right to shoot down a Russian missile that's already violated international airspace? The rest of the world will just laugh and ignore yet another meaningless complaint- just one of many.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah. Especially if Zelenskyy just makes an agreement with Romania that they are allowed to. Kind of like how if a criminal crosses the UK's border into Ireland during a police chase, the British police officers are still allowed to continue the chase for a reasonable distance (Until the Irish police can take over)

[–] cryball@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

It would be hard to argue that this was unjustified escalation by NATO. At the same time it would signal that Russian escalation would be met with a proportional response from NATO.