US spy plane restarts snooping on Russia as Trump loses patience with Putin

https://www.newsweek.com/us-rc-135-spy-plane-nato-russia-border-intelligence-gathering-2096537?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_main

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  1. By Ellie Cook and John Feng — Security & Defense Reporter |

    A U.S. Air Force spy plane has flown a fresh sortie close to Russian territory after spending months in the Middle East, flight data shows.

    The RC-135V Rivet Joint by the call sign “JAKE17” took off from a British air force base on Tuesday and crossed friendly airspace in Europe, making its way up to Finland via the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, according to Newsweek’s analysis of signals recorded by the website Flightradar24.

    The reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering aircraft skirted around the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad before returning to the United Kingdom. The chunk of Russian soil on the Baltic Sea is sandwiched between NATO members Lithuania and Poland.

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  2. How nice of Trump to let Putin know that they’ve restarted flights

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