Posted on 09/08/2014 5:51:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Two Russian strategic bombers conducted practice cruise missile attacks on the United States during a training mission last week that defense officials say appeared timed to the NATO summit in Wales.
The Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers were tracked flying a route across the northern Atlantic near Iceland, Greenland, and Canada’s northeast.
Analysis of the flight indicated the aircraft were conducting practice runs to a pre-determined “launch box”—an optimum point for firing nuclear-armed cruise missiles at U.S. targets, said defense officials familiar with intelligence reports.
Disclosure of the nuclear bombing practice comes as a Russian general last week called for Moscow to change its doctrine to include preemptive nuclear strikes on the United States and NATO.
Gen. Yuri Yakubov, a senior Defense Ministry official, was quoted by the state-run Interfax news agency as saying that Russia’s 2010 military doctrine should be revised to identify the United States and the NATO alliance as enemies, and clearly outline the conditions for a preemptive nuclear strike against them.
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No, I fear he is doing much more than that.
He wants the old Russian Empire back. Which means the west Coast of North America.
From what relatives in Seattle have said, there are large numbers of Russians already there.
Mad Vlad has already pretty much said he doesn’t recognize the sovereignty of the former Soviet satellites. Mad Vlad wants the Cold War back, he wants the Evil Empire back.
And in other news, RT reports that the Russian "backyard" includes all the occupied territories of the former Soviet Union. Please stay tuned for more from the Kremlin.
I’m betting on the invasion of Estonia either in the next few weeks or in the spring. And then we’ll see just how serious NATO really is.
: )
Ukraine is a symptom of the overall problem, which is America's abdicating a leadership role in the world. Putin readily filled the vacuum created by Obama's abject weakness.
If it happens, the easy bet will be that the Russians will claim that they were “provoked,” and our local Russophiles will tell us that it’s our fault.
I can see Obama utilizing two predictable responses to almost any military challenge — drone or bomber strike against a worthless target and an appeal to the UN to do something. Obama - “the United States requests the UN (mommy) to make them stop. In fact we implore you to initiate sanctions...”
Quick! Let’s destroy more of our nukes and stop missile defense spending!!
A very likely scenario. Good post.
The reach of the Russian Empire was greater than the old Soviet Union. The point is the same
I wonder how many of our apparent Russophiles are just trolls from Russia posting from hacked computers that they’re using as proxies? It’s not like their government isn’t capable of this kind of thing.
Probably only one or two. But the actual Russians are very good at riling-up our hardcore paleos, paultards, and conspiracy-peddlers, to the point where one cannot distinguish between them, and probably shouldn’t. They may dance to a different tune, but it’s the same rhythm.
Using Obola after reading a Freeper post it, like it! :)
Its true, these incursions have been going on for decades, but we should never, ever let any nation believe we don’t take our sovereignty or safety seriously or that we would not respond with overwhelming force against any aggression,
It was that clinton in the late 1990s that first decided by craft and policy that we should ‘absorb’ a first strike, whatever that means, instead of a launch on warning as a deterrent,
It was always presumed by those in the know that Russia or another of our nuclear enemies would launch a surprise attack and what had always held them in check was the knowledge that they also would be met with immediate force in return, it was a given, so the only advantage would be an all out surprise scenario, out of the blue, with overwhelming capability.
Does anyone believe that under G W Bush, if a surprise attack was launched against the homeland that he wouldn’t have immediately launched an a massive retaliatory strike?
Does anyone honestly think obama would respond the same? then neither does Putin.
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