My unwelcome suspicion is that they are training to attack Russian forces.
Hopefully not in Russian airspace or territory.
I hope they leave the Russians alone. I figure the hills of Tennessee would be good training ground. They train here a lot but yesterday was the lowest I have ever seen them fly. They don’t typically fly so close to homes. At the same time, we are rural and the houses are not close together. Our local Facebook groups were all abuzz about it because they were so low and they did it on another side of the County the first of the week.
I would not put it past the PTB. Should it come to pass, it will result in both intended AND unintended consequences that ought to be interesting, and will definitely be less than pleasant.
Another possibility, though not likely (but not impossible either), would be that they're training Ukraine pilots to use US planes.
I would hope that we're not that stupid, but every time I think we've reached the pinnacle of stupidity, our government does something even worse.