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In news of the current Russian norm, Russia decided to buzz British airspace. Unlike the US Air Force's reactions, the RAF just intercepted them and deterred them. To be frank, if I was Putin and given a green light to invade my neighbors at will and support people with extreme prejudice, murder people I don't like overtly and not even try to hide it with crocodile tears and non-enforced laws and the like, I'd be doing the exact same thing. There is nothing irrational about Russia's provocations and intent to break up NATO. From the brute logic of Realpolitik, it illustrates that Putin's the only leader in broader Western civilization other than Merkel even trying to shape events.
What Merkel gets with the wallet Putin gets with tanks but the same result ensues.
Meanwhile the USA is an empire in relative decline with an ineffectual President and deranged lunatics driving the opposition into the ground expect to get paid for not working for a living and thus not really able to do much about what either of the other two do.
We'll see if Russia keeps this up and if NATO suddenly decides that doing this in Western European airspace, unlike Turkish Airspace, really is a problem or not.
In news of the current Russian norm, Russia decided to buzz British airspace. Unlike the US Air Force's reactions, the RAF just intercepted them and deterred them. To be frank, if I was Putin and given a green light to invade my neighbors at will and support people with extreme prejudice, murder people I don't like overtly and not even try to hide it with crocodile tears and non-enforced laws and the like, I'd be doing the exact same thing. There is nothing irrational about Russia's provocations and intent to break up NATO. From the brute logic of Realpolitik, it illustrates that Putin's the only leader in broader Western civilization other than Merkel even trying to shape events.
What Merkel gets with the wallet Putin gets with tanks but the same result ensues.
Meanwhile the USA is an empire in relative decline with an ineffectual President and deranged lunatics driving the opposition into the ground expect to get paid for not working for a living and thus not really able to do much about what either of the other two do.
We'll see if Russia keeps this up and if NATO suddenly decides that doing this in Western European airspace, unlike Turkish Airspace, really is a problem or not.
