- cross-posted to:
- europe@feddit.org
- cross-posted to:
- europe@feddit.org
Russian Il-20M reconnaissance plane ignored requests to make contact, in latest of what are seen as provocative acts by Kremlin
Two German Eurofighter jets were scrambled on Sunday to intercept a Russian military aircraft above the Baltic Sea, as Estonia said it would call an emergency meeting of the UN security council after Russian planes violated its airspace.
Germany’s air force said the Russian Il-20M reconnaissance plane had switched off its transponders and ignored requests to make contact. The Eurofighters took off from the Rostock-Laage airbase to head off the aircraft as it flew in international airspace.
Tensions between Nato and Russia have been dramatically rising after a series of what European governments say are deliberate, provocative acts by the Kremlin. On Friday, three Russian MiG-31 fighters violated Estonian airspace in the Gulf of Finland. Moscow denies this.
He’s losing the war and is thus expecting a loss of support for the war. So he needs to extend the war or he’s dead. And he cannot just attack another country again.
What we need to do is exactly the opposite of what he wants us to do. Which I think we are doing.
Game theory? He needs the west to do what he told his people the west would do?
But he doesn’t need the NATO to actually attack to substantiate his rhetoric. Or does he?