Category: Diplomacy

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• The strongly worded protest — John Kiriakou's account of what actually happens when one state violates another's airspace: not an act of war but a démarche. He notes that the Russians do it to the United States over Alaska all the time, that the Americans do it back with some frequency, that the Norwegians, Swedes and Turks do it too — and that the response is to send an ambassador in to lodge a formal protest.