Saagar Enjeti
Security, Europe
Putin won’t be happy.
The U.S. Air Force is dispatching the F-35A to Estonia Tuesday to reassure its European allies just days after Russian bombers flew near the coast of Alaska, CNN reports.
The fighter jets will likely not be permanently stationed in the country but are part of the European Reassurance Initiative, put in place by the U.S. after Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. The show of force also follows repeated Russian bombers incursion into Alaska’s air defense zone earlier in April. The bombers flew approximately 100 miles off the coast of Alaska, at first prompting the …read more
Source: The National Interest
