Why does Poland has to ask for the permission of the US to shoot down missiles in their neighbour country, which would be fine by it?
What has the the US even to say about that?
Even considering a NATO thing, Poland is still able to act as they see reasonable.
I'm really not sure what to make of this and am asking myself mostly wtf?, or if I've just missed something of a geopolitical agreement here, that I haven't known of.
That "if" is doing a lot of heavy lifting and maybe Poland doesn't want to yolo World War 3.
To make this a black and white issue is kinda weird when the severity of being wrong is so high. Just because Poland is being a considerate partner to other NATO member states doesn't mean it's required to act that way.