Canada1 said: "What did you want them to do?
They fly missions in the Arctic, we fly missions in Europe as part of NATO.
They spy, we spy.
Do you ever wonder why the Canadian/US/UK embassies have "military attaches"?
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A bit over-simplistic. Canada doesn't fly incursions into Russian airspace. These "training exercises" are used to discover response times. How long it takes us to scramble interceptors, what level of def-con this elicits, what kind of plane we are responding with.
Which they can factor in range and velocity and time to intercept.
The question might be asked, why don't we just refuse to play? The main reason is these brief incursions around the edges demonstrate our sovereignty. The Russians would be happy colonize this side of the pole, given the vast wealth underneath. If they did, who would know? We wouldn't be flying up there for any other reason than this.
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