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Wrong. The US is not flying bombers capable of carrying nuclear warheads at large populations just to intimidate them.
by bamboozled 5y ago
Wrong. The US is not flying bombers capable of carrying nuclear warheads at large populations just to intimidate them.
- fellodip 5y agohttps://apnews.com/article/europe-europe-air-force-russia-7ff508110cae77e6edf0ab6d9dc3d256 https://apnews.com/article/europe-europe-air-force-russia-7f... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/russia-mig-31-b-52-bering-sea-military-flight-1609890%3famp=1 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/russia-mig-31-... US does these things, its just not highlighted front page material in American press when it happens, so it goes unnoticed to American populations unlike when adversaries like Russia fly bombers near Alaska. Also US conducted similar maneuvers as what China did to Taiwan but to Iraq preceeding the Iraq invasion.
- bamboozled 5y agoI re-read my original comment, I have no idea how the US was inject into this actually.
- iszomer 5y agoTit for tat or a part of a consistent NATO combat exercises? If this is the new norm for a Chinese excercise, they clearly are overcompensating: a fleet of them versus a trio of bombers.
- sofixa 5y agoIt does as the sibling commenter pointed out, furthemore it used to fly bombers with nuclear warheads around the clock, nearly bombing itself and its allies numerous times in the process.
- p_l 5y agoIt also regularly played "chicken" with flying bombers into USSR space at one point, which nearly got us preemptive strike starting WW3
- caoilte 5y agoInterestingly (I didn't know) the Chinese planes weren't even anywhere near Taiwan. This is an image of their route from Taiwan's defence ministry https://mobile.twitter.com/MoNDefense/status/1443975956578795522 https://mobile.twitter.com/MoNDefense/status/144397595657879... This was a routine Chinese air patrol that got propagandized by the US.