IMI-Aktuell 2020/607
Bomber: Katz und Maus
(16.09.2020)
Im National Interest (via Bpb-Newsletter) wird vor einem gefährlichen Katz-und-Maus-Spiel gewarnt, das sich US-Atombomber und russische Kampfflugzeuge über dem Schwarzen Meer liefern würden: „In the past few months, the Black Sea is a lot less quiet than it ought to be. A mostly land-locked sea with decades of treaties designed to keep interlopers from sending warships into the area willy-nilly, the source of tension is in the skies, with U.S. planes showing up just outside of Russian airspace. (…) This culminated at the end of August, with an overflight by U.S. strategic bombers of the entire NATO alliance. Nominally a show of solidarity, it quickly became provocation when one of the bombers, a nuclear-capable B-52, made a beeline for the Black Sea, and headed for Russian airspace. An interception followed, and the usual U.S. complaining about how ‚unprofessional‘ that was.” (jw)