US-Nato: Failed Tactic of 'Bomber Diplomacy'

摘要

In what was supposed to be a display of the US commitment to the notion of a trans-Atlantic alliance, coupled with a warning to Russia regarding the ongoing crisis in Belarus, the US Air Force sent six B-52 strategic bombers on a single-day operation called "Allied Sky" — in which the bombers flew in close formation over the territory of all 30 Nato members. During their mission, the B-52s were escorted by fighter aircraft and refueled from aerial tankers from the air forces of other Nato members — a clear sign that the flight of the bombers was more than simply an exercise in unilateral power projection by the US.MEnergy Compass group