Pointing to the exercises' expected heavy focus on air power, something Ukraine has lacked utterly throughout its three-month long counteroffensive this summer, Maloof emphasized that the drills appear aimed at going "from being reactionary in terms of reacting to a crisis, to actually going on a war footing" on NATO's part, "assuming that there’s an invasion, and that Russia has allies participating."
"Russia would certainly engaged its hypersonics, its hypersonic missiles, which would only take just a few minutes to get to European cities” with little if any warning time, Maloof emphasized.
"The last thing Europe needs is a war against Russia," the observer stressed, pointing out that even just the proxy war in Ukraine, in which Western countries have shed no blood, has turned into a real "disaster" for Washington’s overseas allies, causing their economies to plummet and setting back living standards at least a decade.