The disturbing news story:
Russia could use bases for its strategic bombers on the doorstep of the United States in Cuba and Venezuela to underpin long-distance patrols in the region, a senior air force officer said Saturday.
“This is possible in Cuba,” General Anatoly Zhikharev, chief of the Russian air force’s strategic aviation staff, told the Interfax-AVN military news agency.
The comments were the latest signal that Moscow intends to project its military capability in far-flung corners of the globe despite a tight defence budget and hardware that experts consider in many respects outdated.
Zhikharev indicated that Russia was looking only at occasional use of the facilities — not setting up permanent bases in the region.
In all cases, entirely unacceptable – we cannot tolerate that a non-American power shall have strategic forces based within the Americas, even for a short period of time. Putin seems bent on pretending that Russia is a super-power, and he’s playing with fire here.
Should such a thing happen, I urge that President Obama take the most strenuous action possible to prevent, including intercepting the Russian planes and forcing them down in US territory.
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