{"id":921,"date":"2014-10-31T19:17:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T23:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=921"},"modified":"2014-10-31T19:17:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T23:17:29","slug":"troubling-trend-nato-warns-russian-military-aircraft-incursions-worst-since-cold-war-zero-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Troubling Trend&#8221; NATO Warns Russian Military Aircraft Incursions Worst Since Cold War | Zero Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2014-10-31\/troubling-trend-nato-warns-russian-military-aircraft-incursions-worst-cold-war\">&#8220;Troubling Trend&#8221; NATO Warns Russian Military Aircraft Incursions Worst Since Cold War | Zero Hedge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\"><strong>Over the last 2 days, more than two dozen Russian military aircraft,<\/strong>\u00a0in four groups, were tracked and intercepted conducting aerial maneuvers around Europe, according to NATO. As\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1e439a;\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/nato-tracks-large-scale-russia-air-activity-in-europe-1414605816?mod=WSJ_hppMIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond\">The Wall Street Journal reports<\/a>,<strong>\u00a0this activity is on a scale seldom seen since the end of the Cold War,<\/strong>\u00a0prompting NATO jets to scramble in another sign of how raw East-West relations have grown. &#8220;There is a troubling trend&#8230; of sabre rattling&#8221; 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,\u00a0<em><strong>this is &#8220;Russian aggression,&#8221; and &#8220;we have to reassure our allies.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">A photo released Wednesday by the Norwegian Air Force shows what it said was a<strong>Norwegian F-16AM Fighting Falcon, left, accompanying a Russian Tupolev Tu-95MS at an undisclosed location<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1e439a;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2014\/10-overflow\/20141030_russia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2014\/10-overflow\/20141030_russia_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1e439a;\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/nato-tracks-large-scale-russia-air-activity-in-europe-1414605816?mod=WSJ_hppMIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond\"><em>As The Wall Street Journal reports,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"position: relative; font-style: italic; padding: 1em !important; margin: 1em !important 2em !important 1em !important 2em !important;\">\n<div class=\"quote_start\" style=\"border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #e9eff3; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #e9eff3; bottom: 3em; left: 0px; min-height: 2em; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 101px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #e9eff3; border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #e9eff3; bottom: 0px; position: absolute; right: 0px; top: 2.3em; width: 101px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"width: inherit !important; display: block; margin: 0px !important;\"><strong>Russian military aircraft conducted aerial maneuvers around Europe this week on a scale seldom seen since the end of the Cold War,<\/strong>prompting NATO jets to scramble in another sign of how raw East-West relations have grown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: inherit !important; display: block; margin: 0px !important;\">\n<p style=\"width: inherit !important; display: block; margin: 0px !important;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Troubling Trend&#8221; NATO Warns Russian Military Aircraft Incursions Worst Since Cold War | Zero Hedge. Over the last 2 days, more than two dozen Russian military aircraft,\u00a0in four groups, were tracked and intercepted conducting aerial maneuvers around Europe, according to NATO. 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