Soviet warships were off American shores during Reagan, and warplanes flew in international airspace then as they do now
Russians are doing nothing new- and nothing that we do not also do.
I agree with this comment below the article above...and here is a comment from the article itself.
U.S.
F-22 fighter jets scrambled about 10 times last year -- twice as often as in 2013 -- to monitor and photograph Russian Tu-95 "Bear" bombers and MiG-31 fighter jets that flew over the Bering Sea
without communicating with U.S. air controllers or turning on radio transponders, which emit identifying signals.
Putin is just doing probes cause he can do it and nobody is going to challenge him. A couple of Fire and Forgets would surely help remedy forgetting to turn on those flight transponders and do wonders to bring this under control.
Don't pretend that Reagan didn't contact Breznev or whoever was running the show over in Moscow back then and tell them to turn their goddamn identification on an remind them just how close they are to U.S. airspace and to tell them that with no way to ID them don't be surprised if one of you aircraft turns up missing.
But the chickenshit in the white house now, he's more interested in looking the other way while PUTIN plays his games.
Haha! Now that's funny.
