Russia restarts Cold War patrols

Russia is a nuclear power. It has land-based, submarine-based and air-based nuclear weapons at its disposal. Some over 7’000 active and about 9’000 reserve. Enough to kill everything on this planet.

On the other hand, there is hardly a real nuclear threat. The US has more than enough trouble handling its conventional wars and it is very difficult to believe, they would attack such a weak state as Russia out of nowhere. The European powers are much to dependent on Russian oil or gas to be of any threat. We like to trade, work and enjoy peace, not to fight wars.

Israel has bigger problems than Russia and neither China nor India or Pakistan has anything near enough weapons to destroy the Russian land-based nuclear weapon systems.

But, Russia seems to be that much threatened, to restart their long-range nuclear bomber patrols. I am not sure, but I don’t think the US have constant nuclear bombers in the air. They rely on their ground and submarine-based weapon systems.

Britain has reduced its amount of active weapons and just keeps one submarine on alert. China has no modern bombers to speak of.

But still, crazy Putin says “the move to resume the flights permanently after a 15-year suspension (because they could not afford the fuel) was in response to security threats posed by other military powers” and that “14 bombers had taken off from Russian airfields early on Friday.” Now with the high on oil prices, Russia has again the money to flex their muscles.

As you might have read, Russian bombers have flew close to the US base Guam, Scotland and Alaska were intercepted by Western forces. We can just hope, that nobody is trigger itchy.

This might just be a sign from Putin, that we should not forget him, but probably, it is also a sign, that his submarine forces are way beyond their best times themselves.