Posted on 11/10/2014 8:01:41 AM PST by McGruff
A new report out of Europe says that Russian military confrontations and "near misses" with NATO nations have seen a dramatic uptick in 2014. It warns that Russia must reevaluate its military policy and that NATO and Russia must improve communications to avoid potentially catastrophic confrontations.
The report, released today by the European Leadership Network (ELN), a British think tank focused on regional security, chronicles some 40 incidents over eight months in which Russian military forces committed "violations of national airspace, emergency scrambles, narrowly avoided mid-air collisions, close encounters at sea, and other dangerous actions" across Europe and near North American airspace. The incidents cited in the report are not new, but are based on openly available news and government reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Gee I wonder what happened eight months ago to start all this chest thumping?
The Sov, er, Russian invasion of Ukraine.
When the USA is dysfunctional and absent, NATO is nothing. Putin knows that. No surprises...move along folks.
Whoa that's terrible!! The Russians hit NATO nations even tho they were soo close to missing? What I don't understand is why the rest of the article makes it sound like they missed but had 'near hits'. OK I got it, the language is changing so now 'near miss' doesn't mean what it used to. Like the way 'gay marriage' no longer means the happily excited union of a man and a woman.
And the Sochi winter olympics at nearly the same time.
Thank you feckless Obama for encouraging the neighborhood bully by your absence of leadership. sarc
An oxymoron...
NATO planes & warships need to engage missile lock on these Russian intruders. That’ll give them something to think about.
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