Trump offers ambiguous initial response to Russian drone incursion into Poland's airspace

It was the first time the transatlantic alliance has confronted a potential threat in its airspace, scrambling jets to shoot the Russian drones out of the sky. The U.S. president last month held a summit with Putin in Alaska and then met with Zelenskyy and key European allies about finding a pathway to end the war — something that Trump vowed to get done quickly during his 2024 White House campaign. Article 4, the shortest of the NATO treaty’s 14 articles and infrequently invoked, states that: “The Parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened.”