We do the same thing.
Us old folks remember the U-2 incident and Gary Powers.
Yeah, I was in utero at that time, so I’m having a bit of trouble recalling the live incident, but I’m also certain that after that, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the various nuclear alerts and false alarms since then, that there are procedures to make sure that neither side needlessly risks a confrontation. That’s why we let them know that we were about to hit Syria.
Neither side is suicidal, or otherwise insane. Disagreeable on occasion, maybe....