We have 45 minutes warning when Russians set off their ICBM...(thanks to radar) but with bombers coming within minutes of vital targets (on ‘routine’ reconnaissance flights) we won't have time to stop them.
This is more like prep for a hot war than a resumption of the cold war.
You probably forgot 1970-1980s when Soviets had some 700 bombers operational at any moment, supported by some hundred tankers flown from Santa Clara, Cuba and Kam Ranh, Da Nang in Vietnam.
Swarms of them buzzed around East Coast and USN ships everywhere in Pacific on a daily basis, for some reason it never made any news and no missiles were fired as well.
What has changed today? There are just a couple bombers getting around for lols, probably unarmed. Let the crews have a couple beers and sunny beach down the Caribbean, it is really depressing in Russia this time of the year.
Agreed