Friday 29th of March 2024

real fake news items about a real fake provocation... who is in whose airspace?

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Fake news: Nato’s “interception” of Russian planes

by Valentin Vasilescu

Almost every month, Nato announces that its interception at air protocols have been activated by a Russian airplane getting too close to the border of a Nato member state. These alarm bells constantly sirening in our ears, create the impression we are under a perpetual threat of war. Yet these Russian airplanes never actually violate Nato airspace. What is actually going on?

For several years, the Western media, Nato officials and an army of “analysts” have been contaminated with Russiaphobia. Their hearts seem to be heavy with a mortal fear of “aggression” by the Russian Air Force in the proximity of Nato territorial waters in the Baltic and the Black Sea. Let us examine the reasons for this fear, which you are sure to conclude are trivial.

In the three Baltic states and Romania, Nato has established a mechanism called “Quick Reaction Alert” (QRA). QRA is a system of rotation involving 150 soldiers, 6 pilots and four fighter planes which respond to a simple mandate imposed on the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Italy and other Nato countries to undertake air policing, every four months.

To examine what is happening, we’ll use Romania as a case study. On several occasions, the warning mechanism for rapid response has announced to the press that Russian military planes have tried to enter the Romanian air space without first obtaining permission to fly within it. Each time such cases have been signalled, British Eurofighter Typhoon planes or Canadian F-18 plane have taken off with a view to intercepting Russian planes to “defend the integrity of Romania’s air space over its territorial waters.”

For example, during August 2018, in just one week, the British Royal Air Force made an official announcement that it had carried out three take offs during day and night, from the air base at lMihail Kogalniceanu (Romania), with its Typhoon airplanes in the context of the QRA, to intercept Russian planes that were flying over international airspace above the Black Sea.

Zooming in on the facts, we note that the British have intercepted the following: 
• An Antonov An-26, transport plane; and  
• A Beriev Be-12 plane for search and rescue 
Both these planes had taken off from Crimea and were on a training flight above the Black Sea, at a distance of 100 miles from the Romanian coast.

The British declared that the trajectory of these planes made you think that they were going to leave the international air space and enter accidentally or deliberately the Romanian air space. Yet, the Be-12 is a non-armed hydroplane dating back to the 1960s. It is unarmed and crosses at a speed equal to that of a helicopter.

So what is actually going down? It’s all about the pilots keeping their ranking. In this domain, every country has the same regulation for the military Air Force. The six British pilots drafted to the Romanian base of Mihail Kogalniceanu for a period of four months, are carrying out combat service. This is why they cannot carry out training flights like their colleagues in the United Kingdom. If these pilots cannot fly at least once a month, when they return to their country, they have to undergo training, accompanied by an instructor, in planes with pilots.

Thus the Western press, with a complete lack of professionalism, makes the inference that the alarm bells signal a real threat and make it “news” for the public. The press do not go to the Defense Ministers of the United Kingdom or Canada to ask him the reasons for such superficial missions and why they do not send training planes (with double commands) to Romania which, although a host nation, is not equipped with Typhon and F18 planes.

Thus maintaining the ranking of the Nato pilots drafted in Romania is a necessity. Nato member states fraudulently resolve this issue, agitating the name of Russia. As the Russian Air Force takes off and lands everyday in the air bases at Crimea, 150 – 200 miles from the base of Mihail Kogalniceanu, British and Canadian pilots do not need to make training flights to reconfirm their ranking after a month on the ground. The Russia planes of Crimea are able to play the role of an air force for Nato fighter planes, given that the radars on board the Typhoon and F-18 planes can detect air targets at a distance of 100 miles.

To maintain their ranking, two British or French pilots fly for training purposes and choose a day with difficult conditions corresponding to the minimum parameters of difficulty for Typhoon and F-18 airplanes (that is a ceiling of low clouds and poor visibility). They can also choose to fly at night, again in the conditions specified in the minimal parameters. The only prerequisite is that on this day or night, Russian planes are taking off from Crimea.

Thanks to this ruse, the six Nato pilots drafted in Romania manage to resolve their problem of keeping their ranking in conditions of a fighting service and with two or three flights per month.

After all, they are only men and not machines. This is the entire secret behind the hysteria artificially provoked by the rhetoric “The Russians are attacking us”, the mantra of the Western Press.

Valentin Vasilescu

Translation 
Anoosha Boralessa

 

Read more:

http://www.voltairenet.org/article203746.html

 

Picture at top of an earlier incident in the Black Sea where the USA has nothing to do being there... Imagine russian boats going into the Gulf of Mexico (may be they do but  the US Navy does not know...

 

US Naval Forces Europe-Africa released more footage on Wednesday of a Russian fighter jet coming within 5 feet of a US Navy plane on Monday.

The Navy says a Russian Su-27 intercepting a US Navy EP-3 Aries signals-reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea flew within 5 feet of the American plane. The intercept lasted two hours and 40 minutes.

“These videos show the Russian Su-27 intercepting the EP-3 from a very close position, at the same altitude, and with an estimated wingtip-to-wingtip horizontal separation as little as five feet at times,” US Navy Capt. Bill Ellis, the commander of Task Force 67, said in the Navy statement. “For the Russian fighter aircraft to fly this close to the US Navy aircraft, especially for extended periods of time, is unsafe.”

 

Read more:

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/new-videos-russia-military-jet-us-nav...

 

It is unsafe, uncooth, unreasonable for the US Navy to do "exercises" in the Black Sea"...

EU shooting its own two feet...

The EU is punishing itself for doing Washington's bidding and sanctioning Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. However, while the restrictions policy does not harm the US, the EU suffers billions in losses.

In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País, Lavrov lamented the dismal state of EU-Russia relations, describing them as far from normal. The divisions are being fueled from across the pond, he said.

"The mythical 'Russian threat' is forced upon the Europeans, primarily, from the outside," Lavrov said. The main bone of contention between the EU and Russia –sanctions– were imposed by the European nations "on direct orders" from Washington.

With that said, the US has hardly felt any adverse effect from the policy it championed, unlike the EU.

"Estimates of losses incurred by the EU states from the sanctions vary. According to some estimates, they might amount to over €100 billion. It's important that European politicians understand this," the minister said.

Russia, which had to retaliate with tit-for-tat measures, is ready to lift the restrictions it imposed on European goods back in 2014.

"We have spoken repeatedly about our readiness to abolish countermeasures," Lavrov said. However, the EU must make the first step.

 

Read more:

https://www.rt.com/news/443164-lavrov-eu-sanctions-100bn/

 

Read from top.

Statement by russia...

The Foreign Ministry hereby issues a strong protest against the gross violation of the rules of peaceful passage in the territorial waters of ​​the Russian Federation in the Black Sea by Ukrainian naval ships, that took place on November 25, 2018. Russia has lodged a demand for an urgent UN Security Council meeting to discuss the current situation.

Russia has repeatedly warned the Kiev regime and its Western patrons about the danger of inflating artificial hysteria in connection with the Sea of ​​Azov and the Kerch Strait. Clearly, this is a well-thought-out provocation that took place in a predetermined place and form and is aimed at creating another hotbed of tension in that region and a pretext for stepping up sanctions against Russia. Clearly, all of this was also designed to distract attention from the domestic political problems that exist in Ukraine. This assumption is further corroborated by Kiev’s plans to impose martial law in the country, a move which is odious in the light of the upcoming presidential elections in the spring of 2019.

We are also outraged by the Ukrainian radicals unleashing another attack on Russia’s diplomatic missions, and the damage it caused. We demand that Kiev bring those responsible to justice and ensure the unconditional inviolability of the Russian Embassy and Consulate Generals in Ukraine in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961.

We are hereby issuing a warning to Ukraine that Kiev’s policy, pursued in coordination with the United States and the EU, that seeks to provoke a conflict with Russia in the waters of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea is fraught with serious consequences. The Russian Federation will firmly curb any attempts to encroach on its sovereignty and security.

 

Read more:

http://www.voltairenet.org/article204123.html

and by the way...

this is the way that ABC stupid online reported the incident, which was admitted by the leader of the Ukrainian fleet as "a provocation"...

 

Russia attacks Ukraine


Russia has fired on Ukranian navy ships and seized three vessels in a contentious and crucial part of the Black Sea. How will they respond?

ABC news...

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For the Russians:

 

"There is no conceivable way that the Russians would want a crisis of this kind at this point. They reacted to an extremely aggressive action taken by the Ukrainian side which was intended to be provocative," Mercouris told Kiriakou and co-host Brian Becker. "Russia has imposed no blockade on the Ukrainian ports like Mariupol', on the Sea of Azov; it is concerned, very concerned, about the safety of the Kerch Bridge, which now links Crimea to the rest of Russia, and the Russians have made very clear that they will protect it and that they will defend it. And that is what happened. And as I said, anybody on the Ukrainian side and anybody in the United States and anybody in NATO knows this and knows perfectly well that deploying Ukrainian warships in this very provocative way was guaranteed to produce a Russian reaction."

Mercouris said there's no question that people in the US State Department and NATO secretariat "want to see this thing escalate even further," justifying further moves against Russia, although he noted that media in Europe ranges from critical of Poroshenko's motives to openly hostile to the idea of condemning Russia, favoring in some cases mediation between the two powers.

 

Read more:

https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201811271070156212-Kerch-Incident-Trans...

and trump speaks with the wrong orifice...

US President Donald Trump said he might not meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the upcoming G20 summit in Argentina, due to Russian “aggression” toward Ukrainian ships trying to force passage through the Kerch Strait.

“Maybe I won’t have the meeting. Maybe I won’t even have the meeting,” Trump told the Washington Post in an interview on Tuesday. “I don’t like that aggression. I don’t want that aggression at all.”

Trump said he was waiting for a “full report” from his national security advisers about Sunday’s incident before making a final decision.

On Sunday, three Ukrainian Navy vessels tried to force passage through the Kerch Strait, between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, before they were intercepted and captured by the Russian coast guard. The vessels and 24 of their crew members have been detained for questioning.

READ MORE: Ukraine security chief admits intel agents were on board Navy ships during Kerch standoff

Kiev has declared a state of emergency over the incident, claiming a “Russian invasion” was impending. Moscow has denied any such intentions and condemned Ukraine for violating Russian territorial waters, as defined by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

 

Read more:

https://www.rt.com/news/445017-trump-putin-meeting-kerch/

 

Regardless of whatever, the Ukrainian boats should HAVE STOPPED WHEN REQUIRED BY THE RUSSIAN NAVY. Trying to evade coast guards is akin to running drug-ships...