Within 10 feet of World War 3

Two drudge teaser today (not co-located):

Russian fighter comes within 10 feet of US Navy plane...

 WWIII closer than any time in 60 years...

The first story:

A Russian fighter jet carried out an intercept of US spy plane flying over the Black Sea, according to US Defense officials, cited by the Reuters news agency.

A Russian fighter jet intercepted a US spy plane flying over the Black Sea, according to US Defense officials cited by the Reuters news agency.  The officials said that there were multiple interactions between two aircraft and called the intercept by the Russian jet "unsafe and unprofessional."

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the incident lasted about 19 minutes and the Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter came within 10 feet of the US Navy P-8 surveillance plane.

The second:

THE world is closer to a catastrophic and bloody World War III than at any other point in the past 60 years, experts have warned.

Russia and China, both of which are pumping vast amounts of money into their militaries, could soon rival the US in terms of power and prestige.

Potential WWIII triggers are located in Poland, Syria and the South China Sea

And this is not at all unrelated:

Car packed with gas cylinders found outside Notre Dame cathedral...

A radicalised French woman who wanted to run away and join ISIS is in custody in Paris today after abandoning a car packed with gas cylinders close to Notre Dame Cathedral.

The suspect - who is 29 and on a terror watch list - disappeared with her boyfriend, aged 34, early on Sunday morning.

This was when her Peugeot 607 was found with its lights flashing in a no-parking zone in Paris's Rue du Petit-Point, across the River Seine from Notre Dame, at 7.30am.

Now, think back to 2008, and the looming Good Times to Come, the Dawn of the Era of Hope and Change. Did you think then it would turn out to be "one prolonged act of suicide"?

If anyone had said that Obama would manage to alienate Israel and the Philippines, lose Turkey, pay Iran a hundred billion dollars, preside over the loss of a won war in Afghanistan, lose billions of dollars in military equipment to ISIS, watch a consulate burn, restart the Cold War with Russia, cause Japan to re-arm and go the knife's edge with China would you have believed it? If someone had told you in 2008 millions of refugees would be heading for Europe and that the UK would leave the EU after Obama went there to campaign for them to remain would you not have laughed?

Britain’s Admiral Lord West: "Basically none of us know what is going to happen but we are in a more dangerous, chaotic and unpredictable time than any other in my 50 years in the force."

And it is not going to get better. For years, if then.