...In any case, pondering the minutiae of the incident loses sight of the bigger picture which is far more important. U.S. and NATO drones are flying thick and fast around Russia’s borders since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine a year ago.
These drones and other surveillance platforms are providing targeting information for the Kiev regime to attack Russia. There has been an uptick in air strikes on Russia’s pre-conflict territory, including attacks on nuclear airbases and energy infrastructure. Clearly, the United States and its NATO allies are a de facto party to the war.
In the latest incident, the American Reaper was approaching Russia’s air security zone with its transponder turned off. That covert mode of flight contradicts the Pentagon’s claim that its aircraft was carrying out a “routine” mission. The inference here is “routine” means “innocent”. There is nothing “innocent” about NATO drones spying on Russian territory while supplying offensive weapons and targeting information to a Kiev regime whose soldiers glorify Nazis and the killing of Russians.
Indeed, it’s incredible that Russia is obliged to expend effort in justifying its actions to interdict the American drone. Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Antonov, was summoned in Washington for a rebuke. Antonov apparently gave his American interlocutors short shrift and told them they were the ones creating provocations.
Given the wider circumstances of NATO arming the Kiev regime to the teeth – the latest development being the supply of MiG-29 fighter jets from Poland and Slovakia – arguably it should be a legal right for Russia to not merely intercept but to blast enemy drones out of the sky.
Can it be imagined how the U.S. would react if Russian drones were flying near its territory with their transponders off? We don’t have to imagine. Only a few weeks ago, President Joe Biden ordered F-16s to fire $500,000 Sidewinder missiles to shoot down a Chinese weather balloon and other balloons that had accidentally strayed into North American airspace.
The danger here is that Washington is a hyper-militarized, hyper-hostile rogue regime that is unhinged from its own delusional sense of righteousness and hubris. The American regime wantonly declares Russia and China to be geopolitical enemies and yet expects to fly and sail its warplanes and warships wherever it pleases as a matter of “routine”.
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