{"id":86098,"date":"2026-09-04T08:33:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86098"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:33:24","slug":"russia-flirting-with-nato-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/russia-flirting-with-nato-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Flirting With NATO War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/09\/04\/multimedia\/04russia-europe-01-fczp\/04russia-europe-01-fczp-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" alt=\"A man in a blue suit is seated, with a floral bouquet on a table in the foreground. A fireplace and a flag are behind him.\" width=\"338\" height=\"226\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s failed drone attack on a German airport was part of a dangerous pattern of escalation that, experts and officials said, risks sparking an open confrontation with NATO \u2014 whether the Kremlin wants it or not. Such attacks began occurring shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, part of an effort by President Vladimir V. Putin to bring the war to the West. But they have recently increased in frequency and intensity, Western security officials said. The attacks, along with recent reports citing Western intelligence services suggesting Russia could be planning some kind of military incursion or provocation along NATO\u2019s eastern flank, have frazzled Europe and left officials there casting about for solutions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: Russia\u2019s failed drone attack on a German airport was part of a dangerous pattern of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86101,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86098\/revisions\/86101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}