Russia issues a "notice to airmen" of naval & air exercises in the Black Sea..

 Thanks to Деметрий В for the pic!

Well at least the Russians are gonna leave an escape route for their opponents (I say that tongue in cheek).  

I had hoped that this would blow over.  My Russian audience still thinks it will.

I'm not so sure.

Nato runs exercises galore.  Russia?  Not so much...most not even close to this scale. I wonder if that's part of this.  Russia being a bit miffed at all the exercises going on in Europe, all the time?

Time will tell.  We all wait to see what happens next.