Russia and the West regularly brush against each other on the outskirts of the Ukrainian conflict.
Since the start of the war, Russian maneuvers near Allied airspace have been regular.
Westerners are also gradually increasing their support for kyiv as part of a proxy war.
Sometimes the tension is stronger.
It is then necessary to know how to control the risks of escalation.
Controlling this syntax is the prerogative of military powers and the consequence, too, of decades of experience of rivalry.
When it is a question of States possessing nuclear weapons, it is even a matter of responsibility, as Western capitals remind us with horror.
Isolated incidents can run the risk of a spiral.
In September, a Russian Su 27 fighter fired a missile near a British reconnaissance plane.
Technical incident, it was said.
In November, an accidental Ukrainian missile strike caused two deaths in Poland.
For a few hours…
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