Originally Posted by
Otterbox
This really isn't unexpected or unusual when you look at how our interactions have been with the Russians in recent history.
Originally Posted by
SayAlt
Actually, since the ridiculously labeled and totally inaccurate "End of the Cold War", Russia has been mostly benign and our respective militaries have been downright friendly with one another. Being broke and domestically (inwardly) focused does this to a military (Russia).
Only recently (since Russian invaded Crimea in 2014, in fact) has Russia returned to being so provocative with incidents like this, as anyone who reads and kept up with world news knows.
Originally Posted by
Otterbox
2014- present is recent history.
I see the problem here. You are suggesting that this kind of thing has become the new normal vs. what it was in the previous decade+. I showed why that wasn't true.
Originally Posted by
Otterbox
What they're doing isn't smart but it certainly isn't worth shooting them down over.
Someone who jumps to the last (currently this) page of the thread without reading the prior pages might assume I had suggested that in a previous post.
I did not.
Thx