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US-Russia tensions soar with sanctions and aerial brinkmanship
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Over recent days there has been a rapid escalation of military and political tensions between Russia and the US/Nato, with a series of fraught aerial incidents involving warplanes, and ongoing and planned military manoeuvres on both sides in the Baltic region that risk sparking a confrontation.
Moldova, Bulgaria, Poland, Albania, Latvia to lose more than 40% of populations by 2100
bne IntelliNews
Over recent days there has been a rapid escalation of military and political tensions between Russia and the US/Nato, with a series of fraught aerial incidents involving warplanes, and ongoing and planned military manoeuvres on both sides in the Baltic region that risk sparking a confrontation.
A Russian Su-24 buzzes the US destroyer Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea in April 2016.
Coming against a backdrop of a harsher package of US economic sanctions against Russia that is in pro- gress and the EU decision to extend its sanctions on Russia by another six months, it remains to be seen what counter-sanctions threatened by Russia will
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Coming against a backdrop of a harsher pack- age of US economic sanctions against Russia that is in progress and the EU decision to extend its sanctions on Russia by another six months, it remains to be seen what counter-sanctions
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