By Laurence Dollimore
Two Russian planes (click here) that violated Swedish airspace earlier this month were equipped with nuclear weapons, it has emerged.
The flyover near the island of Gotland on March 2 was a deliberate act designed to intimidate Sweden, according to Swedish news channel TV4 Nyheterna.
A total of four planes had taken off from the Russian air base of Kaliningrad....
Putin violates international standards, treaties and laws all the time. PUTIN DOES NOT RESPECT DIPLOMACY. This is an intimidation tactic and aimed at Sweden, of all countries. Sweden needs to consider if it would be better to be a part of NATO.
This is not funny business. There is no waiting for the other shoe to drop or "let's see what happens." If civilization is going to wait to see if Putin is bluffing, it will be all over and too late to decide any sanctions or otherwise. The flight of nuclear bombs over Sweden is an act of war. Just that simple. NATO needs to prepare themselves that Putin's chronic brinkmanship is no longer brinkmanship with the unprovoked invasion into a peaceful sovereign country.
The rouge countries, of which Russia is now one, are prepared to strike with whatever it takes. That should be obvious from Syria.
When pregnant women, their newborn infants and mothers are targets of Russian missiles that is called genocide. And that is only ONE definition of which Putin is very guilty.
I fully expect NATO to get real and prepare for a war no one ever bargained to occur.
I might add, Russia has been sending squadrons of jets to pentrate USA borders. NORAD forces have been very busy. This is all serious violation and should not be tolerated. Russia has a long way to go to bring back any faith in it.
Squadron of four Russian jets is exactly the same STRATEGIC FORMATION seen at the borders of the USA. That is tactical flying with INTENT.
If those jets were not met with resistence in the USA, they would have violated our sovereign airspace and likely started retaliaiton and who knows where it would end?
