Russian military says U.S. flights near Crimea fuel tensions

Those are beautiful pieces of equipment.

Like a panther mauling your face. I hesitate to contemplate their beauty for the terrorism they represent.

I’m curious how the simultaneous pro-anti military crowd will react to this.

Is that like the up down crowd? Or the left right pundits? Or the on off light? Who are you talking about??

Don’t invade other countries if you don’t want us flying near your borders, as if that would stop us.

Us? You are pilot? Or does the President or Pentagon call you to make sure your permission has been granted??

Its the U.S. doing the lion's share of the invading for more than half a century. Crimea was invaded long before I was even born though it was not a military invasion but a settler invasion. The people living there today are majority ethnic Russian and decided to be Russian. Its the same thing in eastern Ukraine.

I doubt you advocate war and saber rattling over Quebec pondering independence from Canada or Scotland from the U.K. Amirite? Why the disparity?

Pure provocation. Do "the US and its allies" want peace? On their terms only.

Sigh. The Russians fly right up to the edge of US airspace in Alaska and even down the west coast and you don't hear anyone in Washington whining it is "provocative". If it is international airspace or the airspace of a nation which has granted permission for the aircraft to fly through or in, then there is no violation of Russia's territorial integrity. Let them whine,