Last summer, during the annual political festival on the Danish island of Bornholm, Russia carried out a simulated attack against the island. This year, two U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers appeared in the sky over the festival, gliding silently at a low altitude over the city of Allinge—twice. These flybys were intended as a political and strategic message, a clear American response to last year’s provocations by Russia. The B-52s also patrolled near Swedish waters as part of BALTOPS, a large NATO military exercise in the Baltic Sea. While Danish F-16s regularly police Danish airspace and escort Russian jets, …read more
Source: The American Interest
