In an ominous new development in the Russian relations crisis, Moscow has announced that they are planning to send long-range bomber flights to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. This provocative new maneuver is the latest in a series of events contributing to increasingly tense relations with NATO and the U.S. In an interview Wednesday, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said that "we have to maintain (Russia's) military presence in the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific, as well as the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico" before mentioning the bomber patrols, saying that they were included "as part of the drills. According to U.S. strategic experts, it appears that Russia is trying to send a message by flying their bombers close to American borders; they are attempting to 'retaliate' for U.S. intervention in their attempted annexation of Ukraine and the Crimea, seeing the intervention as an 'incursion' into their sphere of influence, and this action is merely the latest in a series of events that have marked escalating tensions and U.S. sanctions against the nation.
I think that it's not good, and that they should pull out the bombers at once. It's kind of threatening.
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