For the last several weeks, Air Force Secretary Deborah James has been touting the deployment of F-22 Raptor fighters – the best plane America owns – to Germany as “the strong side of the coin” in an effort to reassure Eastern Europeans who have seen their air space increasingly violated by Russian jets. “Russia’s military activity in the Ukraine continues to be of great concern to us and our European allies,” she said.Turns out that the strong side of the coin was just four aircraft, two of which yesterday took a day trip to Last Air Force Base in central …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
