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Handle the Bear with care
By Stephen Kinzer BOSTON GLOBE - APRIL 28, 2016
ONE MORNING EARLIER THIS month
an American guided missile destroyer, the USS Donald Cook, set sail
from Poland on a NATO exercise. It slowed down less than 50 miles from a
Russian military base and began a series of maneuvers, including
landings by Polish helicopters and the deployment of an antisubmarine
device. Alarmed Russian commanders responded by sending fighter jets to
buzz the ship. They reportedly swooped to within 30 feet of the deck.
It
was a scary confrontation. The US Navy called Russia’s action “unsafe
and unprofessional.” Russia’s ambassador to NATO replied that the NATO
exercise “wasn’t military activity proper, but rather an attempt to
exert pressure on Russia.” Both were right. So was Russian Prime
Minister Dmitri Medvedev when he said, “We have slid into a new time of
Cold War.”https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/04/27/handle-bear-with-care/nCjSP6oTynVBVLOqEYp3xM/story.html
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