He was in Russia for about 9 hours, the US purposefully keeps any visits short because they ask the Ukrainians to minimize attacks on Moscow during visits and they don't want to take advantage of the Ukrainians willingness to support the request.
Poland is not the European country for Russia to play with. Not only has Poland invested billions in defense over the last decade, Karol Nawrocki is one of the few European leaders that Trump actually gets along with. When Trump wanted to pull out a brigade a few months ago, Nawrocki made a call and Trump backed off.
The Russian Navy's surface vessels are a joke, they are more of a hazard to Russian sailors then they are to anyone else. Sending a random frigate/destroyer on a lone cruise isn't really impressive.
Britain's defense against Russian hypersonics would be completely naval as their British Army's lack of investment has kept them away from Patriot and other systems. That being said, those hypersonics would have a long way to go if coming from Russian territory that they would need to get through and a Russian vessel firing them would have a short shelf life afterwards.
You'll have to forgive me, on the amount of time he spent in Russia, I just became a dad for the 2nd time two weeks ago & I'm surviving at best on a couple of hours sleep a night.
Poland has done a lot to improve it's military, I'm actually a big fan of it's civil defence force & wish Britain could emulate that but it's nigh on impossible in a low trust society like Britain.
Poland does lack combat experience & it's armor is a bit of a Hodge Podge of equipment they've snapped up all over the place, this puts a considerable strain on logistics.
The point im making about how this mirrors what happened before the war is the US warned Russia there would be consequences & Russia ignored this & carried on anyways.
You can call Russian ships whatever you like, we have nothing.
There is no defence against hypersonics, they take 15 minutes to reach London if launched from Kalinograd, by the time our early warning system has calculated it's heading for London it's likely nearer 10 minutes.
Let's ignore London for a minute we would have roughly 10 minutes for useless idiot Andy Burnham to green light retaliatory strikes before Flyingdales is wiped off the map & the majority of our conventional ballistic sites are hammered hard, I'm not even talking about nukes.
I don't think any of our allies would come to save us, but like I say my gut says Russia will target Poland with something.
England
