Well our political Lords and Masters and the Military (not to mention the Lady Dame Jane Pauline Neville Jones Fan Club, are serious in stirring up anti-soviet Cold War misery - Richard Beeston, Diplomatic Editor of Rupe's Rag The Times has a story our OnLine in the last half hour RAF scrambles to intercept an old Cold War adversary and get ready for a shootout.RAF fighter jets (Two ageing Tornado fighters, part of the RAF’s Quick Reaction Alert, took off from RAF Leeming, in Yorkshire) were scrambled to intercept two Russian strategic bombers heading for British airspace yesterday, as the spirit of the Cold War returned to the North Atlantic once again - please note the Typhoon's are not yet operational after 18 years development and squillions of pounds of development....well they sort of are ready but they haven't been proven to be able to fire missiles, hit the target and then get back to base .. er .. safely - see pic.
The shootdown
While the Kremlin hesitated before responding to Britain’s expulsion of four diplomats, the Russian military engaged in some old-fashioned sabre-rattling.
Two Tu95 “Bear” bombers were dispatched from their base on the Kola Peninsula in the Arctic Circle and headed towards British airspace.........
Strangely Richard didn't tell us about Vyechslav Zharko who the HM Embassy in Moscow was trying to recruit etc etc .... slipped his mind no doubt.
* Toni - Check this before we publish
Telling metaphor for the stand-off between London and Moscow over the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. ...hmmmm we send up two ageing jets to have a shufti at two ageing bombers and that's a metaphor for someone being slipped a mickey finnin his Mayfair hotel Typhoo ? ...Typhoons no can't be that. Hmmmm. Telling metaphor.
** Toni check the meaning of metaphor
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ReplyDeleteTwo Tu95 “Bear” bombers were dispatched from their base on the Kola Peninsula in the Arctic Circle and headed towards British airspace...
covers a dizzying number of different possible vectors and locations
None of which would actually lie within British airspace
Wanker Milliband states that the Russian's tit-for-tat expulsion of 4 UK diplomats was "unjustified." What did the pompous little twat expect?
ReplyDeletePathetic how Bush is using the Brits to start another Arms Race for the exclusive proft of the US Militar-Industrial Complex and his own Bush family fortunes.
Pass the sickbag.
Nice one-size-fits-all comment, Rory: Russians and Britons cross political sabers and it's the fault of both the American military-industrial complex and President George Bush. I'm surprised that you didn't implicate Tony Blair here as well. Thanks for a genuinely enlightening entry, my boy. The American military-industrial complex is to blame for all the world's myriad ills: How convenient. I now consider myself fully educated.
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