“Troubling Trend” NATO Warns Russian Military Aircraft Incursions Worst Since Cold War | Zero Hedge.
Over the last 2 days, more than two dozen Russian military aircraft, in four groups, were tracked and intercepted conducting aerial maneuvers around Europe, according to NATO. As The Wall Street Journal reports, this activity is on a scale seldom seen since the end of the Cold War, prompting NATO jets to scramble in another sign of how raw East-West relations have grown. “There is a troubling trend… of sabre rattling” warned The White House, noting that NATO has intercepted over 100 incursions by Russia year-to-date to which the US Army chief of staff ominously warned, this is “Russian aggression,” and “we have to reassure our allies.”
A photo released Wednesday by the Norwegian Air Force shows what it said was aNorwegian F-16AM Fighting Falcon, left, accompanying a Russian Tupolev Tu-95MS at an undisclosed location
As The Wall Street Journal reports,
Russian military aircraft conducted aerial maneuvers around Europe this week on a scale seldom seen since the end of the Cold War,prompting NATO jets to scramble in another sign of how raw East-West relations have grown.
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