[TangledUpInBlue]

Just the next step...

[al baby]

Don’t blame me I went to my polling place and voted for the other guy I did not stay home and pouted

[bgill]

How's that flexibility working out for you, hussein?

[LeoWindhorse]

shoot them down , smoke um & splash um

[Zhang Fei]

Unless they’re operating from Latin American bases, that’s a lot of avgas to spend on an ongoing meaningless stunt. It’s not exactly going to help the case of all the pan-Slavics, Russian co-ethnics and apologists stateside.

[Mouton]

A president with gonads would announce unscheduled tests of our air defense missiles in the GOM.

[SeeSharp]

Based out of where? Russia doesn’t have a bomber capable of patrolling the Gulf of Mexico if it has to come all the way from Russia. Cuba isn’t going to go for it and Hugo Chavez is still dead.

[Sacajaweau]

There is an international agreement to do recon. I think it originated with Eisenhower.

[Sacajaweau]

This is part of the Open Skies Treaty. We do it, too.

[Army Air Corps]

Pingsky.

[rusty schucklefurd]

re: ““In the current situation we have to maintain military presence in the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific, as well as the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico,”. . .

And, why is that Mr. Putin??

[GeronL]

“Pushover” is the sign Obama was wearing on his back I guess

[SevenofNine]

Russians are out of vodka????

[Uncle Miltie]

Can they stay aloft that long without maintenance?

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

Invite the crews to land and defect and set them up on welfare, obamacare, obama phones, and hot chicks!

How to capture a Ruskie Bomber.

They can even vote for Hillary in 2016!

[Little Ray]

Heck of a haul. I wonder what sort of galley and rest-room facilities they have on a TU-95?

[mrsmith]

Hmmm... in the tradition of failing powers we COULD hire the Russians to defend our borders
It would leave us more money for Bread and Circus to boot.

If Mexico had any problems with how the Russians did it they could take it up with them. Our hands would be clean LOL!

[TigersEye]

Putin has weighed 0bama in the balance and found him so
light in the arse he's not even a consideration anymore.

[PoloSec]

I understand, Russia needs to gather all the intelligence they can before President Cruz takes office, not that it will do them any good at that point.

[JewishRighter]

I guess I’m just an old, crusty fossil who remembers when the Monroe Doctrine still carried weight with foreign powers. When was it cancelled? I also think the Gulf of Mexico should be an American lake. But that’s just silly ol’ me.

[Elsiejay]

“In the current situation we have to maintain military presence in the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific, as well as the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico,”

What, specifically, would be the nature of this “current situation?” Is Putin undertaking to police the near-shore waters of the U.S.A.? How flattering, that he be so concerned for our safety and welfare.