Posted on 04/09/2015 6:11:41 AM PDT by McGruff
Russia is so close that the F-16 fighter pilots can see it on the horizon as they swoop down over a training range in Estonia in the biggest ever show of U.S. air power in the Baltic countries.
The four-week drill is part of a string of non-stop exercises by U.S. land, sea and air forces in Europe — from Estonia in the north to Bulgaria in the south — scaled up since last year to reassure nervous NATO allies after Russia's military intervention in Ukraine. U.S. and Russian forces are now essentially back in a Cold War-style standoff, flexing their muscles along NATO's eastern flank.
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Moral equivalence is a favorite tool of leftists. Is that what you are?
Only one country in the world is turning off miltiary aircraft transponders and flying into civil airspace. That would be Russia.
Thank God that NATO is taking defensive measures against this Russian onslaught.
We don’t want our people caught off guard or unprepared.
That's like saying "I can see my neighbor's property on the horizon"! It's next door you morons at AP!
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/editorials/2014/01/editorial_obama_plays_twister
What else ~would Mr. Flexible play?
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