Putin Loves Tu-95 Bombers But Hates The Internet: What Does That Tell You?

With Tu-95 bombers threatening to invade foreign airspace like there’s no tomorrow and Vladimir Putin calling the internet a ‘CIA project’, does the Russian leader’s combined passion of launching Tu-95 bombers whilst continually lambasting the internet reveal his true character?

Tu-95 bombers are now pretty much a household name, courtesy of Putin flexing his muscles earlier this week and sending two Russian Tu-95 bombers to play mind-games by flying dangerously close to British, Dutch, and Danish airspace, causing the respective countries to scramble jets of their own.

Thankfully the Tu-95 bombers never actually violated the UK, Denmark, or Holland’s sovereignty, and the Russian Tu-95 Bears were escorted back to the woods, so to speak.

Make no bones about it, the Tu-95 bomber was built with one thing in mind. Complete and utter carnage. The Tu-95 first appeared on the scene in 1952 and the bomber is renowned as one of the nosiest military aircrafts on earth.

The Tu-95 bomber also enjoys the dubious distinction of dropping the largest and most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, when it let loose the AN602 Tsar Bomba in October,1961.

So obviously any country which witnesses a pair of Tu-95 bombers flying close to their airspace is going to be more than a little alarmed. Putin would have known this and more than likely relished it.

In fact, on August 18, 2007, Putin announced that the Tu-95 bomber would once again resume patrols, 15 years after the last one had ended.

Since that time, Tu-95 bombers have been spotted flying close to Untied States airspace on a number of occasions. In 2012 they were seen near Alaska and off the West Coast. And in 2013 two Tu-95 bombers had to be escorted by US jets away from the western Pacific island of Guam.

The fact that Putin loves the power and war-mongering potential of the Tu-95 bombers is apparent, but when you contrast this with the Russian president’s hatred of the internet, then a disturbing picture emerges.

Putin hates the internet because unlike a Tu-95 bomber he can’t control it and it is a platform for not only free thinking but dissent. The internet is built on foundations of freedom and universal access, where everybody has a voice and is entitled to their opinion.

Tu-95 bombers were created with nothing but destruction and death in mind.

The “last relatively uncensored platform for public debate” is something Putin cannot abide. That’s why he loves Tu-95 bombers, because forcing any blog with more than 3,000 visitors to register with a state body and putting his inner circle in full control of Russia’s leading social network, is still not enough to prevent lone and hungry voices crying out in the wilderness.

On the other hand, a Tu-95 bomber can censor completely and irreversibly at the drop of a hat, or should that be bomb.