Close Military Encounters Between Russia and the West ‘At Cold War Levels’!

• Russia: “You (US & NATO) keep encircling Russia. Keep increasing troops in Eastern Europe, the Baltics, keep agitating for war against Russia using Ukraine …. we will increase our fighters and bombers in your backyard! Any idea, that you can use Eastern Europe, the Baltics, Ukraine … to start a limited war against Russia, is naïve. We will make sure the war comes to the backyard of US & NATO, in western Europe, North America! You will not escape the conflict!”
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• Close military encounters between Russia and the west ‘at cold war levels’! 
  by Ewen MacAskill, defence and security correspondent, The Guardian 
  Report lists 40 cases of ‘brinkmanship’ in past eight months, including near-collision between Russian spy plane and passenger jet.
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  Close military encounters between Russia and the west have jumped to cold war levels, with 40 dangerous or sensitive incidents recorded in the past eight months alone, according to a report published on Monday.
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  The report, Dangerous Brinkmanship by the European Leadership Network, logs a series of “highly disturbing” incidents since the Ukrainian crisis began earlier this year, including an alarming near-collision between a Russian reconnaissance plane and a passenger plane taking off from Denmark in March with 132 passengers on board.
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  What made the incident especially dangerous was that the Russian plane did not have on its transponders, the usual method of signalling its presence to other aircraft.
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  The report by the London-based thinktank comes after a warning from former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev that the world is “on the brink of a new cold war”. The encounters have taken place mainly around the Baltic Sea but also in the Black Sea and along the US and Canadian borders.
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