Russian Bombers Launch Missiles Over Arctic

Source: Telegraph UK

Twelve Russian strategic bombers are taking part in military exercises above the Arctic involving the launching of tactical cruise missiles.

The Russian air force spokesman did not specify the exact location of the exercises but confirmed that the TU-95MC bombers would take off from five air bases stretching from the Volga River city of Engels to Anadyr on the Chukotka Peninsula overlooking the United States.

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The Arctic exercises follow a widely advertised scientific expedition to the North Pole last month with the task of finding justification for Russia's claims for a bigger slice of the Arctic zone, believed to have rich mineral resources.

Relations with both Europe and the United States have been deteriorating as Russia, buoyed by booming energy prices, has shaken off the post-Soviet malaise of the 1990s.







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great, just great...

Thanks, bushco!

from Dubya's "bestest buddy", Putin....that there is a limit to how much nonsense Russia will tolerate.

Not for political reasons, but because Bush is a befuddled oaf and it makes him uncomfortable. Other countries elect leaders because they are sharp, well educated, and experienced. We vote for the guy with which we'd like to drink a beer and have BBQ.

have a whole voting block which selects their candidate based on who they would most want to tailgate with at a NASCAR race.

He'd love to murder as many of us as Bush would.

the rest of the world was going to sit idly by while he blunders his way through the middle east? This is a good reason why you don't decimate your own army on a fool's errand.

Russia takes over the North Pole.

COOL!!! We far lefties may STILL have a place to go!!

:bounce:

:party: (and I mean party and the Party)

:toast:

Of course, I would have to explain why I went "native." Temporary insanity brought about by years of alcohol abuse. Rehab followed by finding Jesus, and... Voila! Back in the show again!

:-)

"You gotta think in Russian in order to fly that plane"

US stuck in Iraq quagmire...meanwhile, Russia takes over the North Pole! Bush fucks up again!

I'm sick to death of people and their goddam bombs. :grr:

My. That was environmentally responsible of them. :eyes:

The bomb used for Hiroshima was from 12.5 kt to 15 kt and this bomb was 4000 times stronger than that. So 3% from 50.000 kt is still 1500 kt, 120 times stronger than Hiroshima.

:wow:

There is no inherent limit to the size of fusion bombs. One of the rationales for keeping nuclear weapons out of near earth orbit is that you can build a Gigaton fusion bomb, which, when detonated, will set fire to all combustible materials on a large part of the continent below.

:boring: They test stuff... we test stuff. Big deal.

Take a good look at global military spending. We spend as much (not counting Iraq & Afghan Wars which are off budget) as the rest of the world combined.

The Russians are NO threat to us or to much of anyone else.

*CO and their fear mongering and psych control for personal greed and power, has emboldened other like minded greedsters to get in the game. Remember the soviets are old time experts at mass control and propaganda. No threat, you say. Well, why have we been struggling for a century to contain them.

*'s eye for oil has been closed to all other foreign and domestic management. He's all for oil and his oil friends.

It's such a bad climate for mutual trust when * dismisses our Constitution and thwarts accountability.

to www.globalsecurity.org and take a long hard look at the Russian vs U.S. military expenditures and force structures. They spend no where near what we do, nor do they have near the capability to project power or occupy much beyond their borders. This isn't the Soviet Military of the Cold War, it is the Russian Military of Today. Can they defend themselves, certainly. Can they create a bit of havoc, certainly. Can they hold ground against the forces of this country should we mix it up... Don't think so.

need?Even tactical, if used, can change the world's perceptions and toss us into global instability. Sloppy or inattentive leadership can slip us right into a very bad place that even networked terrorism would find difficulty doing quickly.

I understand that our arsenal is vastly Superior. We are the only remaining super power, but you must realize that the political environment we are entering through bullying Russia is
someplace which they are familiar. It would be easy for them to assume their old ways.

This is what concerns me about ignoring the world and pushing the * agenda. That's all.

to do a number on any country and they know it just as much as we do. Given enough Precision Guided Munitions you can easily cripple an economy. That said anyone in Russia with any sense isn't going to pop a nuke, because they know we still have enough of them to flatten the place. This whole thing is at best a minor sabre rattle and really nothing more, along the line of North Korea not getting enough attention last year and firing off a missle or two to get some headlines.

And who would have thought that anyone in our country would have lead us to this sad state of affairs?

I think that saber rattling is what really scared people do, and scared people, as we know,have the least common sense.I think that that foolish disrespect can elicit a stronger response from an armed old enemy.


My point is that another * screwup could be one of his worst.

runs around with a grin on his face when speaking of the toll this BS. war has cost so many American families, and we're not even at war with Iraq.

If not for your efforts and the efforts of your fellow wide stance republican's America would be a safe country with a strong military a budget surplus and a growing economy that was the envy of the world.

So we can invade Russia.

Russia is taking advantage of diminished American military strength.

I'd love to hear what genuine vet Republicans -- McCain, Dole, Warner -- are thinking in private.

Has Russia lost It's damn mind?

The Russians are definitely making a statement with these exercises. A clear message that they are going to be front and center up there protecting their interests. As the passage becomes more navigatable,there will be points of contention to be sure over there.

The sad thing is that Putin can do any damn thing he pleases because the Iraq debacle has evaporated the diplomatic standing that gave us a good degree of "soft power."

Damn Ruskies

Comrade Putin has been waiting for this as long as Bushler has.

Bush looked into Poo-tinz soul, and saw..............NUCLEAR WINTER!

I finally watched it a second time since it first aired in the 1980s; figured it was a distant enough threat, after all (as I told my son) the Cold War is over, has been for many years, so we don't have to live with that particular fear any more.

Yeah, right.