Keeping up foreign relations.
If another nation flies a warplane over your country, that is at minimum a provocation, at the maximum and act of war. I know how to stop this “frightening” thing from happening, quit flying sorties over sovereign territories. JUST STOP.
do a google news search for “russian jets”, and click from there. most sites exempt traffic from goole through their paywall; otherwise, it dorks up their SEOM.
And drop bombs on and kill military of said foreign country? And whatever happened to 'either you're with us or you're against us' in regard to Islamic terrorism? What happens when "us" is supporting "against us" to overthrow a secular, duly-elected government? You start needing Jesuitical moral reasoning to justify following orders when your assisting ISIS and AQ jihadis slaughtering Christians and other non-Salafists.
That is the question: Why are we flying in Syria?? We are not at war with them? The UN has not sanctioned a “no fly zone” as they did in Iraq. What is the purpose?
Russian planes are lawfully flying over Syria, ours are not.
One of our complaints is that they are not turning on their transponders. Yes, we want all aircraft fighting on the Syrian side, on a combat mission we oppose, to be squawking to ensure they are visible.
That’s how silly our leaders are.
The real problem in this, is that we see ourselves as running the sky over Syria and magnanimously offered to let Russia join us. (meaning fully accept OUR goals and leadership position there. Clearing targets with us, etc.)
They see themselves as legal and invited by an ally, and us as the rogues.
Dangerous times.
Russian and Syrian planes fly over Syria by, or with permission of the Syrian government
Some Israeli planes fly over Syria with the knowledge of the Syrian government, they don’t like it but both Syria and Russia understand they are primarily for intelligence/defensive purposes (with an occasional take-out of some sort of WMD or dangerous missiles) and both Syria and Russia coordinate with, or make sure not to try engaging them
What the hell are USA military planes doing over Syria!?????? Such flights constitute acts of war against Syria.... (and for what!?)
Obama continues to provoke, try to provoke war with Russia
...he just moved a bunch of heavy tanks right up to the Russian border, after aiming more missiles at them and after sending a bunch more American military men into Eastern Europe
can he manage getting away with actually setting off WW3 in his last 11 days?
Click on the third or fourth link to it in the list. WSJ doesn’t enforce paywall when coming from a google search.