Venezuela and Cuba may host Russian strategic bombers

[CE_Mikemonster]

AFAIK when you get right down to the base reason it's the same as the resumption of the long range patrols in the Arctic.

 

Militarily there is almost absolutely no point. Politically [internationally] Russia can be seen to be once again a competitor to the US (if only on the front page of a National newspaper or two).

 

More importantly, Putin is garnering himself as the figurehead of a Russia recovering from the 90's. So when it comes to domestic politics it is more important to use resources on the image of an apparently mighty army than it is to spend the money on an actual mighty army. It happens in every country in the world, especially Western ones.

 

I'm not saying a huge amount of resources were used or anything, but there is a distinction between a marketing campaign and the restructuring of the actual business. Just look at our NHS in the UK! :)

[RedTiger]

Wouldn't it be grand if we could all stop this weapons-grade tomfoolery and focus on the real threats to everyone who has a modicum of respect for self-determination? This stuff wears on me the older I get. Is there anyone sane left out there? Would you like to work together and focus on combating those that would kill you without a second thought, or would you rather stare at each other and move your bombers and missile shields around like so many chess pieces?

 

But what do I know? Keep rattling those sabres! :music_whistling:

[topol-m]

Wouldn't it be grand if we could all stop this weapons-grade tomfoolery and focus on the real threats to everyone who has a modicum of respect for self-determination? This stuff wears on me the older I get. Is there anyone sane left out there? Would you like to work together and focus on combating those that would kill you without a second thought, or would you rather stare at each other and move your bombers and missile shields around like so many chess pieces?

 

But what do I know? Keep rattling those sabres! :music_whistling:

 

Well said Red Tiger. We are just trying to guess the winner of the next cold war which is shaping up or certainly will be shape up in a life time.

[Pilotasso]

yeah this whole matter is stupid. Why re-make the same old mistakes?

[topol-m]

yeah this whole matter is stupid. Why re-make the same old mistakes?

 

Cause its human nature?

[Vault]

Well said RT. It appears to me like the former Soviet/NATO cold war generation can't let the past rest and hold some grudge against each other, well that's their war not mine to hell with another cold war, Like yourself I'm more concerned with the irrational fanaticism of certain religious groups currently butchering people on the Pakistan border. Russia is not my enemy.

 

A Russian v's NATO war will yield no winners only losers, As Albert Einstein so finely put it, "I don't know how World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones".

[CE_Mikemonster]

Good quote Vault, you beat me to it :)

[topol-m]

Well said RT. It appears to me like the former Soviet/NATO cold war generation can't let the past rest and hold some grudge against each other, well that's their war not mine to hell with another cold war, Like yourself I'm more concerned with the irrational fanaticism of certain religious groups currently butchering people on the Pakistan border. Russia is not my enemy.

 

A Russian v's NATO war will yield no winners only losers, As Albert Einstein so finely put it, "I don't know how World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones".

 

As history proves there is not even 1 century without wars. So a new WW is highly possible, if not even sure to happen. And as more countries have nukes the higher the chance some of them will use them in an eventual world war. So its a matter of "when" not a matter of "if".