PREVIEW: RUSSIA: PRC: BOMBERS: ALASKA: Conversation with colleague Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center, re: the mission for the Russian and PRC bombers making a show by flying in the Air Defense Identification Zone of Alaska -- and m
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🗓️ 29 July 2024
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1913 Nome, Alaska
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:10.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right. |
| 0:19.0 | All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. |
| 0:23.0 | Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge. |
| 0:26.0 | Piento Ferries, there is another way. |
| 0:29.0 | This is John Bachelor, conversation with Rick Fisher International Assessment and Strategy Center |
| 0:36.4 | about the recent flight of Russian and Chinese nuclear capable bombers of the coast of Alaska, picked up by |
| 0:44.8 | Naurad, met by six high-performance jets from Canada and the United States. What is |
| 0:51.2 | the mission for these bombers flying at the edges of the U.S. Economic |
| 0:57.0 | Zone and in the identification zone? Rick explains this is Cold War Thinking, this is fail-safe, this is Dr Strangelove, what does |
| 1:06.9 | that mean for the future? |
| 1:08.9 | Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center, on the mission of those bombers and the ones |
| 1:14.9 | that come behind them following the missiles the ships the bombers why more of this later tonight? |
| 1:25.0 | John I would imagine that yes it does they they reach a point where they get close enough to their target |
| 1:32.0 | they have to release their cruise missiles |
| 1:35.0 | before the other, our side can intercept them. |
| 1:39.4 | But this is really, yes, please review a strange love and fail safe. |
| 1:46.0 | This is what the Chinese and the Russians want to produce. |
| 1:49.0 | They want to produce fear in the United States, the same kind of fear that they produce on a daily basis, |
| 1:56.0 | sending ships and bombers and aircraft surrounding the Democratic Island of Taiwan. |
| 2:01.0 | That is the future for the United States short of war with China and |
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