As someone who deals with MID coders AND who reads the news, reading the news is sort of like seeing my own future: *Teams message alert goes off* "Sir, I have a question about a plane story." NORAD Fighters Intercept Russian, Chinese Bombers Near Alaska airandspaceforces.com/norad-fighters…

A frequent source of militarized interstate incident (MII) news stories! Now, if only someone had the time and resources to code cooperative and de-escalatory actions following MIIs... it would be like a "plus" to the MID dataset. Like, a MID+ kind of dataset...

Call it a suspicion, this might make MID6...

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NEW - significant #Hezbollah rocket volley just launched into northern #Israel. #IronDome interceptors seen here being launched.

Is this foreshadowing a militarized interstate incident…?

Between this airspace violation and the Philippines' fishery business, this week has been a busy one for future MID coders!

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The two F-35 fighter jets that Norway deployed to Poland in early January were alerted the day before due to Russian air activity. "This is the first time that Norwegian aircraft have been activated for active air defense of Polish airspace, demonstrating the Alliance's

Probably not a MID…

You know, just in case it’s relevant…

Hmmm… 🤔

Oh my…

Not a MID, but these folks sure are involved and in a lot of candidate stories! Interesting to see them in something well short of a MID.

Oh myyy

Under what conditions do MIDs deescalate? Seems the kinda thing someone should code… maybe throw in a “why?” and “how?” too.

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Territorial disputes are the worst.

Two thoughts: 1) No F-22s? Meh. 2) Alaska might have a lot going on in MID6. apple.news/AGtixQtvGT7GkS…

Assuming we won’t be coding this because the conflict is already a war, but still! Could you imagine the coder that gets this story in their queue?! apple.news/AuLl-spniSFKGj…