With respect to Baltic air policing, I was trying to highlight to you that to get from Russia proper to Kaliningrad, as an aviator, if I were flying a flight plan and I had overflight clearance of the Baltics, I could go in a straight line. But they don't do that because, certainly, I don't think the Baltics would necessarily give them overflight rights for military aircraft. Instead, they run astride the boundaries between the airspace, which many countries do when you choose not to have overflights. I'd simply like to characterize it that this is routine Russian activity. It's not seen as out of the ordinary.
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