Tensions between the US and Russia

[Koyaanisqatsi]

What, you didn't think this was a copycat, did you?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29691183/

Report: Russia may base bombers in Cuba
Venezuela also temporarily offers island site as Moscow eyes Caribbean
The Associated Press
updated 7:19 a.m. ET, Sat., March. 14, 2009

MOSCOW - Russian strategic bombers may be based in Cuba in the future, a Russian Air Force chief told Interfax news agency on Saturday.

Maj. Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev, chief of staff of Russia's long-range aviation, said Cuba had air bases with four or five suitable runways.

Interfax reported that he said Cuba could be used to base Russian bombers if the two countries "display a political will", adding "we are ready to fly there."

Zhikharev also said that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has offered an island as a temporary base for Russian planes.

Zhikharev said Chavez had offered "a whole island with an airdrome, which we can use as a temporary base for strategic bombers," the agency reported. "If there is a corresponding political decision, then the use of the island ... by the Russian Air Force is possible."

Two Russian bombers landed in Venezuela last year in what experts said was the first Western Hemisphere touchdown of Russian military craft since the end of the Cold War.

Cuba has never permanently hosted Russian or Soviet strategic aircraft. But Soviet short-range bombers often made stopovers there during the Cold War.

Russia resumed long-range bomber patrols in 2007 after a 15-year hiatus.

[Zero]

i guess they're mad at being 'overcharged'

[Whoha]

Now James Bond movies don't have to suck anymore, go Russia

[Dr Strangelove]

Whatever happened to the rumor that the Duma was going to change the Presidential term limit law and then Medvedev was going to step down and let Putnin resume the Presidency for 12 more years? Maybe not every rumor about Russia is true?

[DanS]

Real strategic bombers? Thought those went out with the 1950s. We have ICBMs nowadays.

[onodera]

Whatever happened to the rumor that the Duma was going to change the Presidential term limit law and then Medvedev was going to step down and let Putnin resume the Presidency for 12 more years? Maybe not every rumor about Russia is true?

That's a stupid rumour. There's a limit of two CONSECUTIVE terms. There's no need for the Duma to do anything.
Oh, wait, 12 years. Right, I have no idea what has happened to the length of a single term.

[Dr Strangelove]

That's a stupid rumour. There's a limit of two CONSECUTIVE terms. There's no need for the Duma to do anything.
Oh, wait, 12 years. Right, I have no idea what has happened to the length of a single term.

The second part of the rumor was that terms would be lengthened to 6 years.

[onodera]

The second part of the rumor was that terms would be lengthened to 6 years.

Actually, it's not a rumour, it's already a fact.

[DaShi]

Now James Bond movies don't have to suck anymore, go Russia

Haven't you seen the latest movies? Putin is James Bond.

[Zkribbler]

Interesting. The Cuban Missile Crises ended when the Soviet Union agreed to pull out its offensive weapons from Cuba and we promised not to invade. Now that they want to place offensive weapons back in, that means we can take the gloves off.

Now...if we only had some soldiers available.

[chequita guevara]

The bombers are being put there because the U.S. withdrew from the ABM.

Also, the agreement with the U.S. was over missiles in Cuba, not bombers

Do you really think the U.S. needs to engage in a Third invasion and occupation of a country that hates us?

[Kuciwalker]

Cubans hate us?

[Naked Gents Rut]

The Cubans che cares about (ie. the oppressors) do...

[Whoha]

Interesting. The Cuban Missile Crises ended when the Soviet Union agreed to pull out its offensive weapons from Cuba and we promised not to invade. Now that they want to place offensive weapons back in, that means we can take the gloves off.

Now...if we only had some soldiers available.

We also agreed to remove missiles from Turkey I think.