Russia will struggle to use its Caribbean bomber base to threaten America

Don’t be overly concerned by Russia’s apparent plan to establish an air base in the Caribbean. The U.S. can deter, and if necessary defeat, any threat that aircraft at the base might pose.

Still, Russia is excited by the prospect of its Tu-160 strategic bomber warplanes being stationed on Venezuela’s Orchila island. Tu-160 aircraft trained in the area last week, and the Kremlin’s TASS media notes that Col. Eduard Rodyukov “told Nezavisimaya Gazeta that ‘the arrival of Russia’s Tu-160 strategic bombers to Central America is kind of a signal to Trump to make him realize that abandoning nuclear disarmament treaties will have a boomerang effect.'”