http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.9776268a25e75ad5b44b4d87e8a32a0 2.4a1&show_article=1







WOLVERINES!!!!!!!!

Thats like porn for you, isn't it?

It's part of the whole muscle flexing by a flaccid and weak regime. Yes, they completed many military objectives in the war against Georgia last year, but they were also exhausted financially and militarily, and the Russian stock market shortly collapsed - how on earth would they ever be capable of waging global war against modern, Western military powers such as the US?

States that have to do this sort of thing often have to do it because they know they aren't capable of the real thing.

The world economy hinges creatly on the US, any attack against us from a country such as Russia, I'd imagine China would have something to say about that...we owe them too much to let some other country destroy us.

Big phoney set up by Russia.

US: Hey! We dont want you putting stuff close to our borders!

Russia: Then what about the missile defense stuff in Eastern Europe! GOTCHA PWNED OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!!!!111one.

Its stale obvious bullshit.

its cock measuring, its all it is.

More a symbolic gesture. Also both Cuba and Venezuela would probably love some rent money. Those aircraft are the top shelf bomber for Russia and there are only 16 of them. The Tu-160 is a complicated bird too. Like our B1 but larger. Chances are they won't be flying them much as they are probably astronomically expensive to maintain. It will do much to spur us to spend money on the F-22 and F-35 program.

US: Hey! We dont want you putting stuff close to our borders!

Russia: Then what about the missile defense stuff in Eastern Europe!




Exactly.

Cold War tactics 101.

Uhmm...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7947824.stm

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said Moscow will begin a comprehensive military rearmament from 2011.

"The primary task is to increase the combat readiness of our forces, first of all our strategic nuclear forces," he told top military officers.

In explaining the move, Mr Medvedev said Nato was pursuing military expansion near Russia's borders.

Last year, the Kremlin set out plans to increase spending on Russia's armed forces over the next two years.

So once again they're willing to break the bank to rearm? I think they are banking on oil revenues jumping again once the global recession ceases?

This should help further spike gun sales however and might replace Obama as the #1 gun selling point for this year!!

$140bn - that's a lot of doll.

Aye it's a ton of money but do they actually have it to spend?

In the case of Venezuela at least, permanent foreign military bases are banned by law. At best the Russians will have landing rights and minimal facilities. Given its distance from the US, use of Venezuelan facilities isn't much of an immediate threat in any case.

Cuba would be a bigger theoretical problem as the planes would not need to leave Cuban airspace to launch a cruise missile strike. Of course proximity to the US also makes it easier to destroy Russian strategic assets (the bombers) if a conflict was in the offing.

The bottom line though is neither Russia or the US has any real incentive to go to war with each other, particularly a nuclear war. We are seeing these actions for domestic Russian political reasons. They want to be respected and feel like a world power once more, so they are asserting themselves wherever they can. This is an easy way for them to do that.