Starting to wonder...

It started a short while ago when Russia decided to plant their flag on the ocean floor in the Arctic trying to lay claim so as to gain control over the natural resources available in the area.

Now this....

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=1212c905-dd79-476c-a6cc-6c50c65ab567&k=19448

Russian strategic bombers run Arctic exercise

http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/media.canada.com/reuters/olcanat_iptc/2007-09-03t101416z_01_nootr_rtridsp_2_news-russia-exercise-col.jpg?size=l


A Russian Tupolev TU-95 plane is photographed by the Norwegian Air Force in International waters outside the coast of Norway August 17, 2007. Twelve TU-95MC Russian strategic bombers will take part in an Arctic exercise on Monday and Tuesday including tactical launches of cruise missiles, an air force spokesman said. REUTERS/331/332-SQUADRON/Scanpix

Reuters
Published: Monday, September 03, 2007 MOSCOW (Reuters) - Twelve Russian strategic bombers will take part in an Arctic exercise on Monday and Tuesday including tactical launches of cruise missiles, an air force spokesman said.
He did not specify where the exercise was taking place but said TU-95MC bombers would take off from five air bases stretching from the Volga River city of Engels to Anadyr on the Chukotka Peninsula overlooking the United States.

"The planes will also practice mid-air refuelling from Il-78 transport planes," the spokesman said.

Last month, President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia's air force to resume long-range patrols by the strategic bombers, abandoned since the end of the Cold War.

In line with his assertive foreign policy and efforts to build up the Russian armed forces, Putin has said the resumption of patrols is needed to guarantee national security.

The air force exercise also follows a widely advertised scientific expedition to the North Pole last month with the task of finding justification for Russia's claims for a bigger slice of the Arctic zone, believed to have rich mineral resources.

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A growing concern? I'm starting to wonder....

 

That is interesting. Kinda seems Cold War"ish".

 

Neither country has enough control over what happens inside their own borders to worry about expanding mho.