Caterwauling across the vastness of the oceans, the "Bears" resurrect as
Russia spreads its wings again. The heavyweight nuclear bomber Tu-95
MS or "Bear- H" (its NATO-reporting name) resumes probing flights since
August last year while the world's radars detect significant increase in the
Russian Airforce's activities gracefully blessed by President Vladimir Putin:
"Our pilots have been grounded for too long. They are happy to start a
new life."

These can all be political signals transcending the European theater,
benefitting parts of the Asian region and resonating throughout the the
Americans. But as analysts broadcast that its scant resources cannot
beef up its air power, Kremlin lifts off with a new momentum dusting off
its aircraft industries, which the West has long believed to be dead. Fear
then grips the world over as Western states scribble their inks on
numerous papers with their observers criticizing that the Russians have
the noble intention but possess the wrong idea. This comes predicated
from Moscow's mantra that the West is a natural enemy of Russia.

The British and Norwegian airforces have been forced to intercept
Russian bombers approaching near their airspace while similar incidents
are reported in the American side. A 75th birthday gift, on the
anniversary of the Russian Airforce, the United States delivered a
batch of new F-22 Raptors (US's 5th generation fighter) at its airbase
in Alaska. The Russians greeted the arrival by sending a "Bear" to meet
their American brothers. The US has been establishing a fresh network
of bases over Europe in proximity with the Soviet state that the latter
views as directly aimed towards Russia. But as the US responds that
Iran should have taken Russia's place in that assumption, the
Russians, however, redefine their strategic military condition, which
by any measure should spread beyond its borders such that calls for re-
opening its old naval bases are inching on the doorsteps of its close allies.
And, at the same time installing new Voronezh-type radar stations
capable of detecting missile launches from the North Pole to North Africa.

While everybody is paying attention to Russia, the world over tends to
dispense with the arrogance of the United States. The dismantling of the
Soviet Union is indeed a geopolitical catastrophe that precipitated the
current state of American behavior in the international political arena
-- that even the Europeans despise and sit uncomfortable with yet they
count on the Americans as a power to nullify the Soviet threath.