The Pentagon has sent six nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to Europe for
training exercises with European NATO member nations, in a move which
officials are presenting as a “message” to Russia.
Though officials tried to present this as a response to Russian
“aggression,” in practice Russia hasn’t done anything in quite some
time. Rather, the deployment appears to be timed to the fifth year
anniversary of Crimea’s accession into the Russian Federation, which the
US opposes.
The nuclear bombers will be operating out of RAF Fairford in Britain for
the time being. This isn’t the only set of B-52 US bombers being
positioned within range of Russia, however, with another set exercises
in the north Pacific, off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
Potentially nuclear-related deployments are likely to add to pressure
for Russia to add to its own deployments in western Russia, as they
attempt to retain some sort of deterrence as the US works on
intermediate-range missiles and threatens more deployments into Europe.
What message exactly is ‘antiques airshow’ against a country with a real AD system?
$ Must. $Burn. $Fuel.
“We’ll fight back, even if we lose.”
Stalin sent a similar message to Hitler.
… W8… that, uh, would mean the Pentagon just said “We’ll invade, even if we lose.”
They couldn’t possibly have meant thaaat.
The folly of empire is ego.
If the Russians sent Bear Bombers to Cuba would that also be “amid tensions with the US?”
Twenty years ago I wrote that the Kosovo war represented a serious fault line that would eventually lead to confrontation between the West and Russia. Though indolent, there is still nothing to suggest an outcome other than the one I predicted then. This latest report just one more piece of grim confirmation.
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Of course you are right. The NATO attack on Yugoslavia with NO UN resolution was illegal and uncalled for. The destruction was huge, the investigation suspect, and the blame put on Milosovic for his understandable refusal to be taken over was never admitted until long after his death in prison. Kosovo was ripped from Serbia with no agreement or referendum and became a huge US base with trafficking of guns, drugs, people and body organs. Even now, Serbs are treated disgracefully in the parts they are permitted to occupy of their former homes.
The pretence that the USA/EU/puppets use that Crimea was “annexed illegally from poor Ukraine” does not fit with the actual behavior of the USA/Israel in taking over others’ lands.
It never occurs to the miserable Dotard that maybe after 50 years it’s time that the occupation ends and territories are returned to its rightful owners in the spirit of friendship and goodwill.
Before it is a fait accompli, it may behoove the Syrians to make a military move against Israel in the Golan Heights. I’ve not supported a single war but this is one I would stand strongly for.
Trump’s servility towards the Zionist government is truly on a level that is as equally vile as it is humiliating. We all know that some degree of acknowledgment of Israel is unfortunately a “necessary” part of American politics, but the lengths Trump has gone to appease the Zionists is revoltingly disturbing.
Seems to me, sending bombers to their border is THE tension.