An englishman in Finland's perspective.
As I recall all this started a couple of months ago when a Russian military transport en route from St Petersburg? To Kalingrad? deviated north of track.
Looking from my pilot's eye point of view, it looked like a navigational cock up - wrong waypoint entered - and, when the guys looking out the front realised it, there was an abrupt change of course.
At this time of the year there is the annual budget discussion.
There has been lots of talk recently about how much defence costs in Finland and, I think, this is being played up to ensure the military gets a large slice of this budget.
There is also a general election next March?
The current defence minister is a member of one of the smaller government coalition parties and there may be a bit of posturing ahead of that.
Nice to here the odd hornet fly over my house, 10miles out on the south westerly runway at Helsinki Vantaa, from time to time though.