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Russian strategic bombers resume Cold War sorties

by mtippett | August 9, 2007 at 05:47 pm

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I'm amazed at the speed that this is escalating...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's strategic bombers have resumed their Cold War practice of flying long-haul missions to areas patrolled by NATO and the United States, a Russian general said on Thursday.

This comes on the heal of another show of force:

Last month Britain's Royal Air Force scrambled fighter jets to intercept Russian bombers heading towards British airspace. Russia's military said that was a routine flight.

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Zlender

at 22:19 on August 9th, 2007

This http://www.nowpublic.com/georgia_russian_jet_fired_missile is still not confirmed by investigation that it was in fast Russians who dropped the bomb. But it sure looks that way. Reading this I wonder what is going on in Russia and what are they trying to prove?

SthPacific

at 06:08 on August 10th, 2007

The Russian are indeed provining that the US is a paper Tiger. Dropping a bomb directly on Pipelineistan and making look like a false flag op, only shows everyone that the USA is incapable of Acting on this threat. If the Armenians do launch there attack on Baku as promised, US citizens can kiss there 401k's good bye

mtippett

at 22:18 on August 18th, 2007

FYI from Wikipedia:

"False flag operations are covert operations
conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which
are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other
entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors;
that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own. False flag
operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations,
and have been used in peace-time; for example, during Italy's strategy of tension."