The old USSR is returning. Anyone doubt it?
Russian bombers buzz US base in Guam - Telegraph: "Russian bombers are reported to have buzzed an American military base for the first time since the Cold War when they flew over the Pacific island of Guam.
# US denies Russian jets buzzed Pacific base
Moscow said that US fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the two Tupolev-95 warplanes as they resumed the Cold War era practice of flying over Western offshore military installations in a mission on Wednesday.
The incident, seen as the latest attempt by a revitalised Russia to project its military might, is likely to have unnerved the Pentagon and caused further perplexity at the State Department over the Kremlin's mercurial course.
The US military was silent about the mid-air confrontation but the Russians were happy to boast about it. 'It was always the tradition of our long-range aviation to fly far into the ocean, to meet (US) aircraft carriers and greet (US) pilots visually,' Maj Gen Pavel Androsov, the head of long-range aviation in the Russian air force, told a press conference in Moscow.
'Yesterday we revived this tradition.'"
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