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That could be a sign that World War III is in the near future.

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An arms race benefits no one besides the arms manufacturers.

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Russia resumed thier presence in Nicaragua a few years ago. It’s brought back a lot of corruption and unrest they thought was gone. This is exactly what Russia wants, to get closer to America as the US is working on getting closer to them.

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The TU-160 (Blackjack) is a highly capable aircraft. It looks like a B-1 but is actually a larger aircraft. There are not many TU-160s in service but they can carry 12 nuclear missiles or appx 100,000 lbs of conventional bombs. It is more similar in concept to the B-1A than the operational B-1B (which is optimized for low level strikes). The Blackjack is a Mach 2+ aircraft with an impressive range and service ceiling. From Venezuela they are in easy striking distance of the US. I did read a release from the Russian News agency that they had left Venezuela. (Military aviation is another one of my areas of interest ). Wikipedia says 27 serial production TU-160s have been made and 16 are in service. So the Russians don’t have many of these. They aren’t cheap to build and given their complexity I suspect a good number of the 27 are hangar queens. (We built 21 B-2s by contrast and I would guess the same holds true for their numbers that are in service vs undergoing maintenance ).

And for those wondering, no, I am not a military hawk, but have followed the field my whole life.

Ohub Level 7 Dec 26, 2018
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And Drumpf will pay for it

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Ummmm, Cuba, Kennedy, Missile Crisis?

It's too soon , & it will always be so !

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It continues to get worse.

In what way?

@Jolanta "Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

@CallMeDave Yes, but I don’t see any “understanding “ coming out of US, neither do I see any desire for dialogue.

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