NATO officials continue to rail about Russian warplanes flying near NATO airspace, sometimes without their transponders, claiming that the planes are a threat to “civilian air traffic” in Europe.
NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg argued that having more Russian planes in the air at all posed an increase to civilian planes, apparently on the grounds that there is a finite amount of room in the air for planes.
Yet one of the most high-profile recent incidents, involving a “Russian” warplanes violating Swedish airspace briefly, turned out to be totally false, with the culprit later identified as a French warplane.
Russian planes have flown close to the airspace of various NATO nations, but have not violated their airspace, and despite the continued accusations the flights don’t appear to be so much an increase in Russian activity as an increase in NATO hyping those incidents as serious.
Funny that, the swedes who where chasing non-existent "Russian" subs recently claimed they had been violated by "russian" war planes until thay had to admit that the war plane was French. The western MSM dutifully reported the "russian" part then dropped the case when its real nationality came out. Quelle surprise…
Another example of "mission accomplished" – the "mission" being to keep the American people ignorant and ill-informed. Can't be giving the American people reason to start asking difficult questions about what the government is doing in our names. Imagine that…
Storm clouds on the horizon. Somehow, some way the antiwar movement has to come together to stop the US/Nato before it's too late. Somehow the real message has to reach the American people who have to be the leaders out of this developing rush to war with Russia.
NATO dream — All of Russia the spoils of war
Russia has the largest land mass and territorial ocean waters of any nation on earth, natural resources unlimited and just thing of how the Western nations would love above all things to each have a big chunk of it.
In fact the russian plane violating the swedish airspace was french.Even Sweden admitted it.