The United States and Canada deployed several aircraft to track Russian military planes that flew near Alaska this Wednesday. The North America Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD are its acronym in English) reported that its aircraft tracked two Tupolev Tu-95 bombers and two Air Defense fighters Sukhoi.
The NORAD, American-Canadian joint command, detected them in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), to which they sent four cistern aircraft and another of surveillance, as well as four F-16. “The Russian (tracked) military plane remained in the international airspace and did not enter the American sovereign or Canadian airspace. This Russian activity in the Alaska Adiz occurs regularly and is not considered a threat,” said the NORAD in a statement released Thursday.
The Adiz is an area of the international airspace monitored by the United States and Canada, which requires the rapid identification of all aircraft for reasons of national security shared between Canada and the United States.
According to calculations by US authorities, nine similar situations have been given so far this year. The exceptionality of the latter is that it happens after Estonia announced that a Russian aircraft had violated the airspace of this NATO member country.
Last Tuesday, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said during a meeting with the Ukrainian Volodimir Zelenski in the framework of the UN Assembly from the UN that NATO countries should bring down any type of Russian aircraft that survives the territory of the Alliance.
“Yes, I believe it,” he answered the question of a reporter, at the beginning of the meeting with Zelenski. When asked if he would support NATO’s allies, the Republican replied that “depends” on the circumstances. But he also clarified that, after the organization has committed to a military expenditure of 5% of the national GDP, its country is “very force with NATO.”
Trump spoke after a series of constant violations of Russian air space and Drones of Poland, Romania and Estonia throughout the last weeks.
In addition, Denmark and Norway investigate as a form of hybrid attack the incursion of drones into two of their airports. The episodes have unleashed the criticisms about the ability to dissipate the alliance, which has promised to be further strengthened and resort, according to an NATO statement, to “all the necessary military and non -military forces” to defend themselves “and deter all threats from all directions.”
The NATO Treaty demands in its fifth article to the partners the club defending each other in case of an unjustified attack.
Change of idea
Alaska was on August 15 the scene of a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. It was in a military base in Anchorage, and in that meeting the US president not only took out his Russian counterpart from the international isolation in which he was and parked the threats of imposing new tariffs on Russia to force a change of idea of the Kremlin; He also gave his main claims of Putin to start talking about the end of the war: the control of the Donbás region, in eastern Ukraine, in exchange for freezing the front line, as it is in Jersón and Zaporiyia. In total, Russia has occupied about 20% of the neighboring country.
This Monday, Trump seemed to have changed in the idea after his meeting with Zelenski, when he said that Ukraine could recover the entire territory occupied by Russia and return to its original borders. “I think (…) with the support of the European Union, it is in a position to fight and recover everything (the ground) of Ukraine back to its original form,” the US president wrote in a message on his social network, Truth.
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