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To: SMARTY

A Daily Basis.
We used to do the same in the other direction, it was a mutual display of bravado.
Putin just is flexing his muscles over something, trying to look impressive.


10 posted on 01/29/2015 4:35:26 AM PST by moose07 (The Camels have reached the parking lot. Shields up!)
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To: moose07

“We used to do the same in the other direction, it was a mutual display of bravado.
Putin just is flexing his muscles over something, trying to look impressive.”

Such patrols were used during the Cold War to evaluate the air defense systems. Putin’s current actions are being conducted in the first place as tactics of intimidation against NATO and in the second place as a means of evaluating NATO air defenses.


14 posted on 01/29/2015 5:15:34 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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