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Old 29th Jan 2015, 21:59
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Russia indicated that increased NATO aircraft have been flying close to Russian borders. No comment from NATO.............. as I would expect.

As for shooting down Airlines somehow RoboCruisers shooting down of an Iran Air Airbus gets forgotten.
The Aegis Cruiser's (USS Vincennes) shoot down of Iran Air Flight 655 can, I think, rightly be compared to the shoot down of MH17.

I would hope and expect that NATO countries regularly keep an eye on our arms-length neighbors. That said - I don't know that NATO aircraft flying near Russia have jeopardized commercial aviation - do you know of any such claims / reports?

The Bull-in-the-China-Shop approach apparently being employed by Russia, I think, provides more opportunity for the china to get broken.
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