[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Should have ringed them with fighters and directed to land at an assigned place or be shot.

Then sent the crews back to Russia flying coach, minus their birds.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

"Should have ringed them with fighters and directed to land at an assigned place or be shot.

Then sent the crews back to Russia flying coach, minus their birds."

Now that is really funny, considering todays Military command and commander in chief.

[Former Proud Canadian]

When your force planes in international airspace to land, it is called piracy. There are rules to this game.

However:

In June, Russian bombers flew over the arctic prompting intercepts by Canadian fighters on two occasions. The Canadian government called the stepped up bomber flights a “strategic message” from Moscow amid heightened tensions.

[listenhillary]

Should have ringed them with fighters and directed to land at an assigned place or be shot. Then sent the crews back to Russia flying coach, minus their birds.

The Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers were tracked flying a route across the northern Atlantic near Iceland, Greenland, and Canada’s northeast.

Under what authority would we do what you propose? Have they declared war on us?