The editors of The Wall Street Journal and their fellow neocons in the U.S. Senate are using a still-as-yet-uninvestigated incursion by Russian UAVs into Polish airspace as a way to goad President Trump further into the war between Ukraine and Russia. Like children on the playground shouting “fight, fight, fight,” they want to taunt Trump into escalating American involvement. They write:

President Trump thought he could negotiate peace in Ukraine with his friend Vladimir Putin, and perhaps it was worth a shot. Yet the Russian has offered nothing but brutal escalation for eight months, and now he is taunting Mr. Trump and NATO by flying drones into Poland. Your move, Mr. President.

An estimated 19 Russian drones violated Polish airspace on Tuesday night, and North Atlantic Treaty Organization allied assets from Patriots to F-16s scrambled to take down the projectiles. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte called the drone foray “absolutely reckless” and “not an isolated incident.” That many incursions can’t be explained by incompetence or bad directions.

Mr. Putin thinks he can get away with this provocation as he pummels Ukraine with hundreds of missiles and drones, and it’s a reasonable bet based on Mr. Trump’s record. Mr. Trump said recently that he is “not happy about the whole situation” in Ukraine. But Mr. Trump hasn’t backed up his repeated warnings and deadlines, and Mr. Putin may figure he can always count on another two weeks.

What’s happened in the three weeks since Mr. Putin’s visit to Alaska? Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Thom Tillis ticked off a damning list Wednesday: Mr. Putin “met with fellow autocrats in Beijing to conspire against America,” and soon “deliberately struck EU diplomatic facilities and other Western assets in Kyiv.”

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