Tschaika
Space Cadet
... aus irgendeiner Ecke des Kremls kommt ein Ausspruch, den die Iswestia um den Globus schickt: Rußland könne sich vorstellen, sollte die USA ihr Rakentabwehrsystem in Polen und Tschechien verwirklichen, seine Langstreckenbomber auf Kuba Zwischenzulanden (stopover) oder gar dort gar eine Stützpunkt "wiederzueröffnen" ...
"Russian Bombers Could Be Deployed to Cuba
Move Would Be Response to U.S. Missile Defense System, Newspaper Izvestia Says
MOSCOW, July 21 -- Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons could be deployed to Cuba in response to U.S. plans to install a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, a Russian newspaper reported Monday, citing an unnamed senior Russian air force official.
The report in Izvestia, which could not be confirmed, prompted memories of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear war after Nikita Khrushchev put nuclear missiles on the Caribbean island. The weapons were eventually withdrawn in an apparent Soviet climb-down, but President John F. Kennedy also secretly agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey.
A spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry declined to comment on the report Monday, but did not deny it. Izvestia is often a forum for strategic leaks by Kremlin and other officials. "While they are deploying the missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, our strategic bombers will already be landing in Cuba," Izvestia quoted the source as saying. It was unclear if the source was suggesting that Russia would reopen a base in Cuba or merely use an airfield there for stopovers by the bombers, Tu-160s and Tu-95s, which are already capable of reaching the United States from bases in Russia."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/21/AR2008072102478.html
und die Antwort läßt nicht lange auf sich warten und kommt vom designierten USAF-Chef Gen. Norton Schwartz während seiner Senatsanhörung:
"And if they did, I think we should stand strong and indicate that that is something that crosses a threshold, crosses a red line for the United States of America."
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2229801920080722?sp=true <!---Wenn sie das tue überschreiten sie eine rote Linie ... -->
tit-for-tat ... das alte Spiel. Einerseits verständlich (der eine stellt Raketen vor die Haustür des anderen und dieser wiederrum Bomber vor dessen) ... andererseits keine Lösung für das Problem ... . Klassiche Konstellation eines Dilemmas.
P.S. Hat überhaupt schon jemand mal die Kubaner dazu befragt?
"Russian Bombers Could Be Deployed to Cuba
Move Would Be Response to U.S. Missile Defense System, Newspaper Izvestia Says
MOSCOW, July 21 -- Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons could be deployed to Cuba in response to U.S. plans to install a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, a Russian newspaper reported Monday, citing an unnamed senior Russian air force official.
The report in Izvestia, which could not be confirmed, prompted memories of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear war after Nikita Khrushchev put nuclear missiles on the Caribbean island. The weapons were eventually withdrawn in an apparent Soviet climb-down, but President John F. Kennedy also secretly agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey.
A spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry declined to comment on the report Monday, but did not deny it. Izvestia is often a forum for strategic leaks by Kremlin and other officials. "While they are deploying the missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, our strategic bombers will already be landing in Cuba," Izvestia quoted the source as saying. It was unclear if the source was suggesting that Russia would reopen a base in Cuba or merely use an airfield there for stopovers by the bombers, Tu-160s and Tu-95s, which are already capable of reaching the United States from bases in Russia."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/21/AR2008072102478.html
und die Antwort läßt nicht lange auf sich warten und kommt vom designierten USAF-Chef Gen. Norton Schwartz während seiner Senatsanhörung:
"And if they did, I think we should stand strong and indicate that that is something that crosses a threshold, crosses a red line for the United States of America."
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2229801920080722?sp=true <!---Wenn sie das tue überschreiten sie eine rote Linie ... -->
tit-for-tat ... das alte Spiel. Einerseits verständlich (der eine stellt Raketen vor die Haustür des anderen und dieser wiederrum Bomber vor dessen) ... andererseits keine Lösung für das Problem ... . Klassiche Konstellation eines Dilemmas.
P.S. Hat überhaupt schon jemand mal die Kubaner dazu befragt?
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