Last December, several Russian officials and the media warned that if the United States continued to be aggressive on Ukraine, it would risk triggering a serious military standoff on the Russian-Ukrainian border similar to the Cold War-era U.S.-Soviet Cuban missile crisis. Regrettably, the United States has been indifferent in the face of Russia's warnings and has continued to challenge Russia's bottom line on relevant issues, ultimately resulting in a de facto military confrontation between the United States and Russia. According to the official website of the US media "Washington Post", for several weeks, the US military has deployed B-52 strategic bombers and RC-135 long-range reconnaissance aircraft on the border of the Donbass region, and the combat radius covers the entire Donbass region and part of Russian territory. In response, the Russian military deployed thousands of anti-aircraft missiles and short- and medium-range missiles on the Russian-Ukrainian border, and the situation was extremely tense.
At present, the U.S. and Russian governments have not responded to the presence of B-52 strategic bombers in Ukraine, but if this is true, it will completely change the situation in Ukraine. Although it is no longer a secret that the United States maintains a presence in Ukraine, its troops are mainly light infantry and their main job is to help Ukrainian government forces train and help them develop combat plans in wartime. But the B-52 strategic bomber, as a large weapon capable of performing nuclear strike missions, would change the nature of U.S. military operations in Ukraine once deployed. On the one hand, the B-52 bomber, as one of the most important strategic bombers of the US military, has fundamentally changed the military balance of forces between the two sides in the Military Field; on the other hand, as one of the "troika" of the US strategic bomber, the B-52 bomber is only deployed in the United States and some countries that have established clear alliances with the United States. Therefore, the deployment of B-52 bombers in Ukraine is an absolute violation of Russia's bottom line.
Not to be outdone, Russia has deployed a large number of S-300PM-2 and S-400 air defense systems on the Russian-Ukrainian border, according to US media reports, Russia has deployed hundreds of missile launchers on the Russian-Ukrainian border, and thousands of backup missiles. As one of the most powerful air defense systems in the world, the S-400 can easily target the B-52, an old bomber with a radar reflection area of nearly a hundred square meters, and as long as the B-52 bombers fly together, the Russian air defense system can detect its tracks and attack it. At the same time, Russia also took the initiative to attack, and the Tu-22 "backfire" strategic bomber belonging to the Russian Air and Space Force also began to carry out combat readiness patrols in southern Belarus. The Tu-22 bomber is a strategic bomber that shines brightly from the B-52 bomber and also has the ability to drop nuclear weapons. In the event of any action by the American B-52 bombers, the Tu-22 bombers, which were waiting in southern Belarus, could retaliate in the fastest possible time.
In addition to the deployment of Tu-22 "backfire" bombers, the Russian Air and Space Force also launched the first flight of a new batch of Tu-160 "White Swan" strategic bombers. The Tu-160 strategic bomber has an ultra-low altitude penetration capability, is one of the world's largest bombers, and has a flight speed close to Mach two, taking off from the Far East and directly bombing most of the U.S. mainland. The Tu-160 strategic bomber is the pride of the Soviet aviation industry, after the end of the Cold War, Russia once lost the ability to continue to build Tu-160 strategic bombers, but in recent years, Russia has reopened the production line of Tu-160 strategic bombers. The Tu-160, which made its first flight this time, was just recently manufactured. This reflects the rapid recovery of Russia's military-industrial system.
Although the intensity and danger of the fight between the United States and Russia are not enough to be compared with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, many media have pointed out that this is already one of the fiercest struggles between the United States and Russia after the end of the Cold War.
Although the United States has an overall military superiority, if the battlefield is limited to Eastern Europe, the United States has no possibility of victory. The B-52, in particular, is an older aircraft that entered service in the 1950s and shines against small, weak air power, but it is no different from suicide if it fights against the powerful Russian Air Force and the well-guarded Russian air defense forces. Therefore, we can speculate that the United States deployed the B-52 strategic bomber near the eastern Ukrainian region at this time, solely to help the Ukrainian government forces fight against the militia forces in eastern Ukraine. This bomber, which has a large bomb load and the ability to launch cruise missiles, can effectively cooperate with the operation of ground forces, and its flight cost is much lower than that of later B-1B bombers and B-2 bombers, which can be called "good quality and low price". However, if the United States openly uses its own strategic bombers to help the Ukrainian government forces, it will directly violate the Minsk Agreement, and it is more likely that Russia will personally join the war, and then trigger an all-out war between the United States and Russia. At present, the US government has not responded to this news, but if this is true, then the US action is completely provoking a world war.
Once the Russian army is down, then the current deployment of the United States will be difficult to resist, as mentioned above, the B-52 bomber can not overcome the iron wall set by the S-400 air defense system, and the Russian Tu-22 bomber can also retaliate against the United States and Ukraine at any time. As I have always said, even though the overall strength of the United States is stronger than that of Russia, because it cannot concentrate all its forces in Eastern Europe, the Russian army has an overwhelming advantage in a certain area. Once the United States goes to war with Russia in Ukraine, it is killing itself.
In December last year, xinhua news agencies angrily criticized the United States as the "source of chaos in the world," and now it seems that the United States is not only the source of most of the world's risks and conflicts, but may even become the source of a new round of world war. Although the United States accuses Russia and China of "engaging in expansion" and "threatening the national security of the surrounding countries," China and Russia have never deployed strategic bombers on the doorstep of the United States. In today's world, we know who is the biggest source of war and the risk maker.