In the New York Review of Books, Ahmed Rashid writes of a recent episode in which:
… a Russian Su-27 fighter jet buzzed a US military plane over the Baltic Sea, only veering off after coming within twenty feet of causing a mid-air collision. Such an event could have prompted retaliation by NATO and possibly given Moscow a pretext for invading Estonia (population 1.2 million), where a few NATO planes are now based.
Troubling stuff and all the more so since it was not an isolated incident but part of a pattern of intimidation, provocation, and aggression by Russia and one that includes some alarming talk of nuclear weapons and:
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