The violation of another country's airspace,albeit with an unmanned drone, is an act of war.
The
Russians Have Already Shot Down Numerous US Drones Violating Crimean
Airspace (Video)
And
one of them, the mother of all drones, the massive Northrop Grumman
RQ-4 Global Hawk, was apparently commandeered by Russian electronic
warfare and landed in Simferopol
Moses
Birch
14
June , 2016
The
war you don’t hear about: numerous American military aircraft
(albeit of the unmanned variety, though with the possibility of being
armed and dangerous) have apparently been violating Russian airspace,
leading to the Russians shooting - yes, shooting - them down
following the refusal of the Americans to acknowledge Russian
diplomatic notes of protest.
The
military violation of the territory, including the airspace, of a
sovereign state is ordinarily taken to be a casus belli - an act of
war.
But
to be fair to the Americans, they may justify their belligerent
behavior, flagrantly refusing to respect Russia’s sovereignty, on
the basis that they do not recognize Crimea to be a part of Russia.
Therefore, they do not recognize any violation of the airspace of
Russia as having taken place. Rather, they would contend that the
American aircraft in question were flying within the sovereign
territory of Ukraine, with the permission of the government with the
only legitimate authority to grant or refuse such permission, namely
the government of Ukraine.
Nevertheless
the Russians have made it clear that they consider Crimea to be a
sovereign part of Russia. The Russians have made diplomatic protests
over what they see as violation of their territory. The Americans
have ignored them. The Russians have therefore shot down - and in one
case commandeered and landed - these aircraft making incursions into
their sovereign territory.
An
act of war has been committed by America against Russia; and if you
accept the American position, an act of war has been committed by
Russia against both the Ukraine and the United States. Shots have
been fired, and the Americans have lost materiel.
Note
that these are not exchanges of fire through proxies, as happened
throughout the Cold War and is happening now through Syria and in the
east of Ukraine. No, these are two nuclear-armed powers already in
the process of shooting at each other!
Are
we already in the opening stages of World War III? How many minutes
to midnight is the nuclear clock? May God help us all
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