The Russians Come Back to America

[level_head]

In the 1980s, the Soviet Union worked to establish military air bases within striking range of the US -- and to support their surveillance aircraft as they worked up the west coast of North America to Alaska.

In the last two years, the Russians have re-launched this initiative against what they perceived to be a weaker America:( The rebuilding of Punta Huete )

Comments

[shockwave77598]

I'll see your 20 Mig21s in Nicaragua and raise you 500 UCAVS built for 50K a piece and based in Poland. Might even reconsider putting the interceptors back in, hidden inside tractor trailers of course. :)

[level_head]

It's the nuclear-equipped Blackjacks -- the "White Swans" (an odd combination names, but they really are "nuclear flash reflective white") -- that concern me more.

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Conventional is the worry:

[hartree]

Why be so worried about the Blackjacks? How are they more of a threat than the Typhoons whose missiles have a much shorter alert to impact time (5-10 minutes or so)? Or the Topol M's that can rain down in half an hour with pen-aids that mean we couldn't intercept them anyway

Re: Conventional is the worry:

[level_head]

I agree that the projection of conventional force -- or really, the projection of capability of force -- is a big deal. It's the psychological aspect that you alluded to at the end

[reality_hammer]

I say we let them finish it and then pull a Grenada on them.

[level_head]

We rely too much on our strength then, I think -- and the problem is our strength now, so such a bet is incautious in my opinion.

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