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BBC News reports:
Russian warplanes have made several close passes in recent days over a US destroyer sailing in the Black Sea, the Pentagon said. Russian state media reported that the USS Ross was acting "aggressively". The US Department of Defense, however, said the ship was "well within international waters at all times, performing routine operations". The US Navy released video on Monday of a Russian plane passing as close as 500 metres to the USS Ross.
A Pentagon spokesman went on to assert that the Russian Su-24 planes were not armed and that the USS Ross made no changes to it's course in response to the passes. Russian warplanes have been exercising pretty hard lately with airborne intercepts by NATO forces increasing dramatically over recent months. In a previous story, also from BBC News, defence correspondent Jonathan Beale stated that the Royal Air Force is intercepting Russian planes approaching UK airspace with their transponders disabled on a monthly basis. Although no rules have been broken regarding sovereignty of international airspace or territorial waters, tensions have obviously increased, as have submarine patrols and exercises by both Russia and NATO.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Magic Oddball on Wednesday June 03 2015, @01:46AM
The reason people gripe about the USA getting involved in other countries' conflicts is because our government/military only does it when it suits their economic or political interests, not when people need our help — and far too many times, our military's action was ethically repulsive, like supporting tyrannical governments in crushing civilian rebellions. Sure, 'we' act like police, but it's more like the kind of "police" people have been protesting over the past year than like the friendly authority figure that exists to impartially uphold the law.
Also, since I've seen several people mix the two up recently:
populace - (noun) a large group/collection of people, like "the public"
populous - (adjective) densely populated