It appears the usual suspects may escalate the war with Russia in two weeks

[midnight rambler]

Largest NATO exercise ever -

https://newsrnd.com/life/2023-05-30-largest-nato-exercise-since-the-end-of-the-second-world-war--airspace-over-germany-temporarily-closed.HJ5fZwQUn.html

[keehah]

Probably at least as related a story than any actual DC, UK, EU and Nato needed preps to have more Slavs killed:

euronews.com: It's official: France bans short-haul domestic flights in favour of train travel (https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/12/02/is-france-banning-private-jets-everything-we-know-from-a-week-of-green-transport-proposals)

Updated: 23/05/2023
France's ban on short-haul domestic flights comes into force today (23 May).

Under a government decree, any journeys that are possible in less than two-and-a-half hours by train cannot be taken as a flight...

When the measures were first announced (https://www.euronews.com/2021/04/12/french-lawmakers-approve-ban-on-short-domestic-flights-to-cut-carbon-emissions), they were contested by the Union of French Airports (UAF) as well as the European branch of the Airports Council International (ACI Europe).

This prompted an in-depth investigation by the European Commission into whether the plan could go ahead or not.

A European Air Services Regulation article states that a member state may, "where there are serious environmental problems […] limit or refuse the exercise of traffic rights, in particular where other modes of transport provide a satisfactory service”.