Why are we harassing the defense minister’s plane? Clearly there was someone of importance on that plane because it was escorted.
Are Russian planes harassing planes carrying US cabinet officials flying
over the gulf of Mexico?
I think the foreign policy idiots in the swamp are pushing for a confrontation with Russia, and I don’t think it is necessary, correct, best for the US,
or that it will end well.
The Russians frequently harass and buzz our and our allies’ ships and planes, skim territorial borders, and attempt to intimidate our pilots by making reckless maneuvers.
Confidence is high that the F-16 is not a U.S. bird.
Have you been missing all the stories about Russian planes buzzing our planes and ships in the Baltic and Black Seas? Clearly the F 16 just went up for a look, kept his distance and was not threatening.
Russians have been regularly flying just miles off the airspace of the Baltic (and other NATO members) states. They don’t inform in advance about the flights, they switch off the “transponders” and don’t communicate with the air traffic control.
So basically just some dots show up on the radar screens and in such cases all the civilized countries send one or two air force crafts to visually identify the unknown object and check out If it is UFO, maybe some aircraft with communication/navigation system failure that needs to be escorted to the nearest airfield... or just damn Russians again.
They do it regularly and then use it for their gay posturing and propaganda about evil warmongers and brave red army that chased them off. Chased them off my ass. The F-16 got close enough to check out what it’s all about (which was the pilot’s task) and then slowly flew away.
The only risk I see is that one day Russians might crash one into another and it will be blamed on “NATO warmongers”.