A top U.S. Air Force officer warned on Tuesday that Russia would be crossing “a red line” if it were to use Cuba as a refueling base for nuclear-capable bombers.
Gen. Norton Schwartz, whose nomination to become the Air Force’s top military officer is being considered by the Senate, was asked at his confirmation hearing how he would advise U.S. policymakers if Russia were to proceed with such a plan.
Russia’s Izvestia newspaper this week quoted a “highly placed source” as saying Russia could land Tu-160 supersonic bombers nicknamed “White Swans” in Cuba as a response to a planned U.S. missile defense shield in Europe, which Moscow opposes.
About the same level of respect the U.S. Russia's Red line which is pfft what red line? All we see is we don't give a you know what.Russia deployed Tu-160 bombers to Venezuela three times, in 2008-2013-2018.
By this pattern they will deploy in 2023, but now they can do it earlier. Like this wekend/next week.And it could be just the begining this time.
Most likelly they will deploy Tu-160 / Tu-95 to Venezuela, and they will start to roll out the deployment of units from Veneyuela to Cuba and possibly Nicaragua .
USA will be "happy" and "calm", and will be capable to evaluate "objectively" the events in the light of Ukranan events.
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U.S. general warns against Russian bombers in Cuba
Wow, what could be the reason of the Russians to respect the red lines of the USA ?
I mean, red lines are there to go thorught of them, isn't it ?
Experts Offer Counter to Putin's Invasion of Ukraine:
1) Occupy Kaliningrad
2) Cyber-Shutdown Military Targets in St. Petersburg,
3) Deploy anti-ship and anti-armor missiles,
4) Increase medium-range missile batteries in Poland,
5) Close the Bosporus Strait to Russian flagged ships.
I used to respect the presenter, Jive Turkey AKA Aaron:
Disagree in principle. China would need to support Russia in essence, but do it in a way that gives the US some leeway to interpret it as minimally compliant to avoid economic MAD.
There are two areas of the US/Western sanctions that potentially can have relatively large impact on Russia and collaterally on China. One is financial system, or more specifically dollar-related transactions, the other is technology, or specially semiconductors and ICs.
For financial systems, China should take the sanctions as an opportunity to set up an alternative system to get around dollar. This system will be open to everyone but particularly to Russia, Iran and other countries and entities under the US sanctions, including Chinese entities. Russia and Iran (and Venezuela etc.) have oil, gas and other commodities, while China has big market for them. The system and trades and transactions will be conducted in yuan and other currencies willing to participate (Euro and yen are welcome). China will have its dollar-dealing institutions separately (or the same institutions with separate systems) unless and until the US takes on China, when it will become an all out financial and economic war. This alternative system will serve as a deterrence to the US abuse of dollars' reserve status. The burden is on the US to go nuclear.
For the technologies, again, a separate, de-Americanized supply chain is needed, something that China is developing currently anyway because many of its companies are under the US sanctions already. Some areas are still to be affected at least in short-term, particularly in B2B market involving large, critical equipment (EUV and like), but I struggle to imagine how the sanctions are going to be enforced in consumer industries and many of the secondary markets for equipment, especially when there are numerous of them. China will not actively enforce them. It will be on a case-by-case basis.
The key thing to remember is that China is in this fight not just for Russia; if Russia is significantly weakened because of western sanctions, China will be next. Think of this way: when Mao was facing the decision on whether to enter the Korean War, it was not about fighting the war or not, it was about fighting the war in Korea now or fighting the war on Chinese borders or even Chinese territory later.
Tucker: Imagine if Mexico fell under the direct military control of China. We would see that as a threat. There would be no reason for that. That’s how Russia views NATO control of Ukraine and why wouldn’t they?
Reading the responses to Tucker Carlson's segment fills me with great worry. It seems that these brainwashed neocon/neolib minions , russophobes, pro-imperialists genuinely want World War III.
This level of brainwash/brain rot I would have expected from citizens of the Third Reich or North Korea not from the US or any of its vassal states. What the hell is going on here !??