A U.S. F-15 out of Elmendorf Air Force Base (before it was re-named Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson) escorts a Russian Tu-95 Bear bomber out of Alaska airspace in 2006. Credit Wikipedia.org
U.S., Allies Scramble Jets Almost Daily To Repel Russian Incursions -- Washington Times
Moscow’s military provocations signal return to Cold War-era gamesmanship
Russian military provocations have increased so much over the seven months since Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine that Washington and its allies are scrambling defense assets on a nearly daily basis in response to air, sea and land incursions by Vladimir Putin’s forces.
Not only is Moscow continuing to foment unrest in Eastern Ukraine, U.S. officials and regional security experts say Russian fighter jets are testing U.S. reaction times over Alaska and Japan’s ability to scramble planes over its northern islands — all while haunting Sweden’s navy and antagonizing Estonia’s tiny national security force.
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My Comment: Russian jets intercepted over the Baltic Sea .... Nato jets 'intercept Russian spy plane' over Baltic (BBC). Russian jets intercepted by Japanese fighter planes .... Japan Intercepted Record Number of Chinese and Russian Military Aircraft (USNI). U.S. and Canadian fighter jets intercepting Russian bombers near Alaska .... US, Canada send fighter jets to intercept Russian aircraft (Reuters). Yup .... a definite trend.
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Here is the questions I have now:
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When will the separatists start their offensive to reclaim towns? One of the sources you linked to said that it would start when it`s spring, but I think they will not wait soo long, pernhaps they want to use this fall to attack and reclaim some of the towns and then push for retaking the Luhansk district/region, is this possible or do you think they will wait?
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How is the Ukranian economy now? Since with near war, little changes is there still a risk of economic collapse? Since if the seps start taking towns and sabotaging Ukranian economy will this bring it to collapse? And is this in the interest of the separatists to get the Ukranian economy to collapse?
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If the seps start a offencive now, what will Poroshenko do? Is there a risk of direct war with him sending over half of the army to fight the seps in a massive counter-offensive or is it more likely that he goes on the defencive.
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How strong does the far right stand I western Ukraine? Since I know they are doing bad on the political polls, nut they have police power in Odessa and can to a limited degree use leverage against the Poroshenko goverment. Are they a threat and can they coup the power if the economy collapses in middle of the winter?
Sorry for the delay Rhaegar. I am finishing up on a project right now.
1) If the offensive resumes, it will not be now. Winter is coming .... not the best season to wage a war.
2) Ukraine's economy is a mess. It will not collapse because the EU is not going to let that happen. But it will be tough times for all.
3) Poroshenko's big worry right now is the economy. He is betting that the rebels do not have the means to resume fighting.
4) The Ukrainian nationalists do not have large scale support .... but they have influence and sympathizers in the government. I would classify their influence as medium right now .... but they cannot dictate policy. A coup is not going to happen .... not for the foreseeable future.
" A coup is not going to happen .... not for the foreseeable future." I think they'll try. I'm not saying they'll be successful, but I think they'll try.
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