Two American B-52 bombers have conducted an extensive patrol over the Baltic Sea.
The U.S. bombers conducted a routine mission with Finland and Sweden.
Why are they in Europe?
“Bomber Task Force missions reinforce our ability to rapidly project combat power, demonstrating U.S. lethality and readiness in a dynamic security environment,” said Major General Joseph Campo, U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa Director of Operations, Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration.
“Training alongside our Allies and partners ensures seamless integration, enhancing our collective deterrence and warfighting capability across Europe and Africa” he added.
The bombers will continue to integrate with NATO Allies, conducting joint training missions to enhance interoperability and readiness. Photo courtesy of the Finnish Air Force
According to the U.S. Air Force, “BTF 25-2 will demonstrate Agility in a dynamic security environment and global strike capabilities in support of assurance and deterrence. The bomber aircraft will continue to integrate with NATO Allies and partners, conducting joint training missions designed to enhance interoperability and readiness across the theatre.
This integration highlights the importance of dynamic force employment, which ensures U.S. forces are strategically postured to deter aggression while adapting to the evolving security environment. The missions will also demonstrate the bombers’ ability to operate from multiple forward locations.”
Only the gullible will be reassured. The US are as reassuring as North Korea. In fact North Korea can do less damage to the world.
Unfortunately the US military and state just seems to be operating on autopilot, their political leadership just flipped sides and no one knows what to do yet so they just keep doing what they were doing before.
What’s a sad end to such an amazing orginzation as the US military that kept the peace for so long.
You’re right, it’s like one of those chickens that continues to walk around even after its head’s been chopped off…
I suspect their orders have not changed and probably will not be changed in the foreseeable future.
The US military’s political masters appointed by the people are in the process of chucking everything up in the air and seeing what happens.
It’s great in theory, we shall see what US citizens think to the result in due course.
In the meantime it might be an idea to pretend US forces could exit stage left at any point and decide to get our act together.
What are the priorities. F**k the %age of GDP just get building. Covid messed up Boris’s first term & I suspect a defence crisis will mess up Kier’s. When the s**t hits the fan it is always the person in charge who gets the blame.
I think kier messed up his own first term, the military crisis is saving him 😀
Sadly, Trump has done an amazing job of undermining Article 5 and European trust in NATO and the US. We have to placate him while we build up our militaries and our military indistrial base.
The only thing that will reassure allies is The Tangerine King recalibrating his mouth to normal diplomacy settings.
Unfortunately that setting doesn’t appear to exist on the Trumpistan II model of the Tangerine King which appears to have been recalibrated to Moscow tangerine tint?
I hope we Germans cancel the F35s at once. What use are they when Putrump can switch off Himars like he just did in Ukraine, too?
At the .moment, it seems that for the US forces, it is business as usual with NATO allies. I’m just waiting for the Trump, double – think – speak fabrication that will signal the reduction, if not, the end of cooperation, to engineer the end of NATO as an effective alliance which I’ve mentioned before. Russia us now calling the USA, its partner again and broadcasts itself, China and the USA in the same breath this afternoon.
“May we live in interesting times”
Yes, it frightens me to say it out loud, but NATO’s gone. Alliances rely on trust more than anything else, and the spell has been broken. It would be like trying to trust a partner who’s cheated on you. The trust can never come back. We’ve lost that lovin’ feelin’…
Perhaps if he goes even further some officers will remember their oath to defend the constitution from enemies both foreign AND domestic!
One man and his dog have undone 80 years of hard fought co-operation and totally destroyed that loyalty and the deaths of so many who stood up for the common beliefs….. all in a little over a few weeks. America, the land of the free is fast becoming the land of the hated. It’s all happening again isn’t it… one man’s ego and his loyal acolytes.
What a mess he is making.
Not only Nato…. Can you imagine how nervous the South Koreans and others in the region must feel right now.