On July 4, Putin called Obama to wish him happy Independence Day. As the call was taking place, 4 Russian long-range strategic bombers with nuclear capabilities approached the US air space.
Two of the bombers came within a couple of miles of Alaska and two more were flying close to the central part of California’s coast. US fighter jets had to go up to intercept the Russian bombers.
This has been reported in the US media but in a very quiet way. I’m betting you haven’t heard about it because any real information gets drowned out by yet another meaningless cycle of outrage. I watched the news for over an hour yesterday, and all I heard was an endless Donald Trump loop. And yes, Trump is an idiot, but let’s move on already. We have nuclear bombers of a very hostile nation approaching our air space. Isn’t that a bit more important than yet another tantrum by yet another unelectable loser?
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Reading the news about this reminds me of similar events when I was growing up during the last years of the Cold War. It was not unusual to see footage of Tu-95s being approached and escorted by either F-14s or F-15s.
I thought those events were things of the past–but here we go again.
And I’m actually curious to see how the Putin boot-lickers in the Nation and on other sites will spin this.
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Yes, precisely, it was TU-95s and F-22s. American technology is moving ahead while the Russians are stuck in the past in every possible way.
The Nation will simply pretend it didn’t happen. They studiously ignore every bit of information that doesn’t show Putin as a warm and fuzzy fellow.
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Russian bombers have been flying around and in U. S. territorial airspace for months. I remember reading about long range Bear bombers flying in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico several months ago.
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That’s true. And every time they come closer.
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“That’s true. And every time they come closer.”
And sooner or later, The USAF will shoot one of them down.
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Never. Everybody is so terrified that it’s barely getting reported.
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They’ve been buzzing UK airspace too, and probably European countries.
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Sorry I should have said ‘OTHER European countries.’ There are people in the UK who don’t want to be part of Europe. They don’t seem to understand it’s mainly a question of geography, not personal desire!
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