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Ex-NATO commander: Air 'policing' no longer enough

Speaking at the Atlantic Council think tank, retired General Philip Breedlove, the former NATO supreme allied commander in Europe, praised this decision. He encouraged the alliance to look at other "options that would tell [Russian President Vladimir] Putin that he's going to get the opposite of what he asked for."
One of those options, Breedlove said, is something he would have already liked to see when he was NATO's top military commander from 2013 to 2016, during which time Russia invaded Ukraine. Noting that the US and other nations are now sending additional fighter jets for the air policing missions that cover the Baltic states and much of NATO's other territory, Breedlove argued that the time had come to upgrade that function and give it some teeth.

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by Oui (Oui) on Sun Feb 13th, 2022 at 11:02:49 AM EST

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Former Supreme Allied Commanders Europe on NATO's Defense Strategy | Atlantic Council - C-Span |
Former NATO Supreme Allied commanders, retired Generals Wesley Clark and Philip Breedlove, joined the Atlantic Council for a virtual discussion on NATO's defense strategy, with a heavy focus on the increasing escalation between Ukraine and Russia. Though they said Russia's troop presence and military exercises on the Ukrainian border point to possible military aggression, it was important for the United States and its NATO allies to remain a unified front.

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by Oui (Oui) on Sun Feb 13th, 2022 at 11:03:39 AM EST
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Confrontation Pristina airport in Kosovo 1999 ...

But General Clark's plan was blocked by General Sir Mike Jackson, K-FOR's British commander.
"I'm not going to start the Third World War for you," he reportedly told General Clark during one heated exchange.
General Jackson tells the BBC: "We were [looking at] a possibility....of confrontation with the Russian contingent which seemed to me probably not the right way to start off a relationship with Russians who were going to become part of my command."

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by Oui (Oui) on Sun Feb 13th, 2022 at 11:05:19 AM EST
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Acts of Provocation Into Violence (none / 0)

I have been doing conflict situations since early 1990'- Bosnia,Eastern Slavonic, Kosovo, Iraq, Iran. Syria. My experience tells me that Veronica is right. We can't rule out large-scale provocations against Donbass to get Russia involved in a crisis situation. Vigilance is needed [_link]
— Mikhail Ulyanov (@Amb_Ulyanov) February 13, 2022

The US Strategic Provocations before and during the Olympic Games

To make your foe act in a definite way through the planned escalation of events, thereby making him lose his position and assets is the essence of any international provocation. [Author: Evgeny Pashentsev]

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by Oui (Oui) on Sun Feb 13th, 2022 at 03:15:37 PM EST
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