German media: Russia demonstrates the strength, because it is weak – Republic

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Russia only wants to provoke – a consistent tone opinion of the German mass media about the intrusion of Russian fighters in European airspace.

The Russian incursion of military aircraft in the airspace over the North Sea, Baltic Sea and Black Sea NATO for its part, responded pickup fighters belonging to forces Air Norway, Great Britain, Portugal, Germany and Turkey.

Response to the hard line of the West

“I do not know if these flights are Russia’s reaction to the hard line of the West “- writes” Spiegel Online “. “Poland recently announced the strengthening of its troops in the east of the country. In the face of the Ukrainian crisis as NATO intensified its military activity, in order to manifest in this way its solidarity with the eastern part of the Alliance, having a feeling of danger due to the annexation of Crimea by Russia and fighting in the east of Ukraine. “

” Russia reaches the threat “- writes commentator portal n-tv. “The message is Russia: We could, if we wanted to. Russia pursues this strategy for a long time. Yes, you can also comprehend the Ukrainian crisis: if the West does not meet our demands, we will continue to grow dim. “

The commentator considers why Russia is so aggressive, and comes to the conclusion that feels threatened expansion of the NATO area the east.

“And besides Russia demonstrates its strength, because it is weak. It is actually a contradiction, but such behavior is not only known in international politics. Russia, as we have often in its long history, is a colossus feet of clay. The sanctions of the West painfully hit her, ruble flying pell-mell, and the price of oil fell to uncomfortably low levels. And Russia is still not a developed, industrialized country, only alive from the sale of natural resources. “

They want to get rid of sanctions

“The Kremlin sending bombers and fighters in the area of ​​Western Europe shows that, despite all Russia wants to be taken seriously – if not as an economic power, although it as a threat military. This is a repeat of the Cold War. “

The real n-tv interprets the provocation of Russia as an attempt to force the EU and the US to begin talks on the lifting of sanctions.” And also because the West is not interested in maintaining the sanctions indefinitely, striking in its huge eastern market, in the short or long run, it finally happens. (…)

So the Russian provocations pose no danger. (…) If we all keep a cool head now, such manenwry remain episodes, you have to admit, quite tense phase in the history of Russia’s relations with the West. If one of the pilots, however zawiodłyby nerves, suddenly everything could turn around. “

They test the response time of

“Die Welt” writes that “These latest incidents merge into a new, aggressive scheme of the Russian armed forces, which can be seen for a long time.” The Russians for years testing our limits of airspace “, as stated in NATO circles. With such serious zooming to the airspace of the Member of the Alliance only took on the frequency and intensity, and is involved more aircraft than at times it used to be. As stated by NATO spokesman in an interview with “Voice of America”: “The level of these provocative flights resembles the apogee of the Cold War period. ‘”

“Die Welt” writes also of Secretary General of NATO Jensie Stoltenbergu, who spoke of change Russia’s behavior in an interview for “Wall Street Journal” and stressed how important it is for the countries of Eastern Europe Plan “Readiness Action Plan”. “NATO is now in the region five times more planes in the air than even a year ago and more ships both in the Baltic Sea and the Black. Military experts generally interpret the Russian bomber flights near NATO airspace as gestures to intimidate the Alliance and as an attempt to systematically test the reaction rate in the case of the NATO aggression. “

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German media: Russia demonstrates the strength, because it is weak – Republic