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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
This is where it is annoying that the west hasn't put massive amounts of air assets into Europe as an implied instant threat, I would much rather be calling up the Kremlin and having the 'hey why are you forcing us to get involved with our in place air assets that will utterly destroy you in about 10 minutes? get your troops away from that Power station' rather than 'well maybe in a couple of weeks if you carry on being nasty'
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The US had 2 B52s running a small pattern over Romania this morning, not to mention the at least 3 air refueling tankers that have been over Poland et al since the beginning of this.
I have no doubt the West's air assets are well known to Russia, and those are just the ones they want them to see.