What will happen next? The arrival of US military assets will either force the Russians to change their operational planning or they will simply run the risk of killing or engaging Americans. The prospective situation is an incident waiting to happen. If Russians engage a C-17 or a Navy ship then this will go to a whole new level.

But although I don’t know the deployments and wouldn’t want to know if I could, common sense suggests the air and sealift will be covered by distant forces.