"Russia’s aggressive move also follows the U.S.’s illegal attack upon an unarmed civilian vessel off the coast of Venezuela, which the U.S. military destroyed on unproven assertions that it was ferrying drugs some 1200 kilometers to the U.S. Such a blatant, lawless action signals to the rest of the world, including the Kremlin, that international rules and laws can be disregarded with impunity."
~ Jay Kuo