NATO intercepts 26 Russian Jets

If that's what the chicken is thinking, what about the cows and sheeps?

I love West/NATO propaganda

Four Russian Aircraft Intercepted over Black Sea on 29 October 2014
Multiple Russian Aircraft Intercepted over Baltic Sea on 29 October 2014
Seven Russian Fighter Jets also Intercepted on 28 October 2014

lol they just noticed them, they can just look at them

it's kinda like bunch of gang bangers with guns hanging out on the street on "public property" right outside your house.... you would be cool with that? shouldn't they play in their own hood? it's not like Russia is some small country, they have plenty of space to run training missions in their own air space...

the only purpose of these missions is to fuck with NATO, not unlike the gang bangers that troll "public" streets...

woj, how old are you?

lil Pussytin will fuck Russia and himself. SOON

the sky is always bluer on the other side

That's true

Outfuckingstanding.

This is some funny BS. You really think bombers are going to travel around like that with tankers behind them and not be noticed? Sometimes I wonder what our governments are thinking.

Big deal. Russia flew it's airplanes.

if your wife is unhappy with you make sure she thinks the neighbour is even worse

wish Peyton Manning threw 26 interceptions

Exactly. Russian nuke bombers get trained in international airspace, NATO jet fighters got trained to follow them in international airspace. Everybody's happy. Isn't it?

According to the BBC, the Russians are imitating a combat scenario:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29832879

some of you need to wake up if you cannot see that this is the new cold war.

So what exactly are President Vladimir Putin and his generals trying to achieve? They aren't saying, but they appear to have multiple goals, all related:

To remind Europe as a whole (four strategic bombers circled the continent to reach Portugal) that Russia is a major nuclear power willing to use force;

To remind Finland and Sweden in particular (a group of seven Russian jets forced NATO planes to scramble over the Baltic Sea twice) of the weakness of their defenses, and warn those two countries against trying to join NATO or defend the Baltic States;

To show the U.S. that opposing Russian encroachments in Ukraine or any other post-Soviet state wouldn't be worth the risk;

To test NATO defenses and, as part of a major military upgrade, get real world training and flight hours after years of decline.

So yes, a version of the Cold War is returning, but its rules and parameters aren't clear.

A defining aspect of the Cold War was that, for the most part, deterrence kept each side from meddling in the other's sphere: The U.S. and NATO stood by during the uprisings in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. Putin wants a similar kind of tacit agreement with the U.S. now.

He gave an idea of his approach to defending Russian interests in a question-and-answer session with foreign Russia analysts in Sochi last week:

True, the Soviet Union was referred to as ?"the Upper Volta with missiles." Maybe so, and there were loads of missiles. Besides, we had such brilliant politicians as Nikita Khrushchev, who hammered the desk with his shoe at the UN. And the whole world, primarily the United States and NATO thought: this Nikita is best left alone, he might just go and fire a missile, they have lots of them, we should better show some respect for them.
So Putin may see testing NATO as a form of shoe-banging. The danger of this new Cold War is that there is complete disagreement between Russia on one side and the U.S. and European Union on the other as to the dividing lines are and the rules of the game.

http://www.bloombergview.com/article...s-buzzing-nato

Putin and friends are starting to panic with the sanctions. It's already hurting a lot... Serious economic sanctions coupled the fact that oil prices are also in sharp decline and predicted to decline quite a bit next year is going to be disaster for them. Russia only survived the last decade because of oil prices, if it wasn't for a massive spike in oil prices, they'd still be begging the world for money to survive as they did from 1994 to 2000 or so, to survive.

What Putin is doing right now is a lot of sabre rattling to demand respect and get a weak US President and weak EU leadership to back down, blaming them and their policies for his belligerence as thats really the only card he can play at this point being that Russia has no real leverage or economic influence to speak of in the world.

Too well said Dyna....... a lot of people are just totally clueless

This topic has gone like arguing with TV's weather reports:

- "It's gonna rain tomorrow."
- "What do you mean? It isn't illegal to rain. Big whoop."

They (the pilots) get paid for that. That's their job actually.

Both Putin's daughters live in the NATO countries

what, was he picking them up from school in a fighter jet?

They are too old for the school ;)

yawnnnnnnn...