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Russia can’t make a move without the West drawing disparaging historical parallels. Everything from planning a natural gas pipeline to holding a routine military exercises conjures up allusions to Joseph Stalin or Ivan the Terrible.
Not so with NATO actions, however. German warplanes can regularly fly over the Baltic Sea region off the coast of Russian territory as part of permanent NATO air patrols and no analogy to their predecessors doing so 80 years ago are made. The German army can command NATO’s battle group in Lithuania, on Russia’s border, and no mention of the Wehrmacht is mentioned. Germany can participate in an air war against Yugoslavia again after a 50-some-odd-year hiatus and no hint of Hitler is breathed.
Senior RAF and German Air Force Officers fly to Romania to see joint NATO Air Policing training
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RAF jets from Scots base scrambled amid reports of Russian hunter planes over North Sea
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While many of the civil servants were based in Whitehall, one is said to have been based at Abbey Wood, home of the MoD’s Defence Equipment and Support procurement organisation, while another worked at Devonport naval base, the Royal Navy’s only nuclear repair and refuelling facility.
Two were based in Scotland, although sources would not say if they worked at Lossiemouth, where the RAF’s Quick Reaction Alert force scrambles when Russian military aircraft fly close to UK airspace.
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