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posted by janrinok on Tuesday June 02 2015, @03:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the my-dad-can-beat-your-dad dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2015, @10:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2015, @10:05AM (#191519)

    False;
    Europe is mostly reluctant in doing 'warlike' things as they had enough of that on their own in the last decades and don't want to inflict it on anyone else. However, France recently proved that they do go in not just with some cruise missiles fired safely from afar, injuring civilians in the process, but with boots on the ground the same day their President declares 'we're going in'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Serval [wikipedia.org]

    The US has a bad reputation as they only invade places where there is oil or interesting stuff; they only do it when they can get rich from it, and the way they do it often costs many civilian lives. No US troops in Somalia, North Korea, none to fight Boko Haram in Nigeria, ....