What do you think Russia is trying to show with the recent sorties?

Question

MOSCOW - Russian bombers have flown to the island of Guam — home to a major U.S. military base — for the first time since the Cold War in an exercise intended to show the Kremlin's resurgent military power, an air force general said Thursday.
They've also flown into British airspace.
What do you think they're aiming to show? Perhaps that their air force is gaining strength?

Answer 1

They are trying to show that Russia is not irrelevant, even though the Union of Socialist Republics has been consigned to the dust bin of history. During the runup to the UN Peace Enforcement Mission of 1991 which expelled Iraq troops from Kuwait, the USSR was consulted. During the NATO mission into Bosnia, troops from the Russian Federation were included. But, despite the Russian Federation having carried out actions against Salafist Jihadist terrorists in Chechnya and other part of the Federation, the West has almost ignored their possible role in carrying the fight against these terrorists in other parts of the world. So, somewhat like a little child who has been ignored in playground activities, they are reminding the rest of the world that they are still around.

Answer 2

Trying to I guess but what they didnt tell you is that there aircraft in both instances were intercepted and turned back before reaching either Guam or British air space. Dont put too much into it they are just trying to show some force which they do from time to time. Their airforce other than a few upgraded bombers and fighters is a mear shadow of its former cold war force.

Answer 3

Espionage - why Putin wants to destabilize the Arabic world?

Russian maxims: when you got a defeat, you got a success too.
Since the Afghanistan war, the Taliban's demand was to get power over/upon the oil supplies in the world. The Ex-KGB members have helped them with army training and Palestinian terrorists of Hamas too within Russian territories. Also, Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became a political pawn who has been appointed by Mr. Putin in order to destabilize the western world and the Middle-East. Russia wants the monopole of oil supplies in the world. At the present time, the cold war between the two giants – U.S.A and the ex-URSS lasts until…
There was a summit between the president Bush and Mr putin lately. CNN.com: "President Vladimir Putin agreed Thursday that Iran and North Korea should not have nuclear weapons and to work to keep such arms out of the hands of terrorists." How we can believe in Mr. putin!
The early 1980s were a time of tense relations and confrontations. The Soviet occupation of Afghanistan brought trade and cultural embargoes from the United States and highly visible gestures such as the United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In Europe the superpowers publicly traded threats and took actions such as the deployment of advanced nuclear weapons while they exchanged compromise positions at the negotiating table. Several events of 1983--the downing of a South Korean civilian airliner by the Soviet air force, the United States invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada to evict a Marxist regime, and the exit of Source: U.S. Library of Congress
I think that at the present time, Mr putin's demand is to take power over the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (sometimes abbreviated as BTC pipeline sponsored by Saudi Arabia, U.S.A and Argentina) transports crude petroleum 1,776 km from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. The total length of the pipeline in Azerbaijan is 440 km long, in Georgia it is 260 km long and in Turkey is 1076 km long. There are 8 pump stations through the pipeline route. It passes through Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan; Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia; and Ceyhan, a port on the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, hence its name. It is the second longest oil pipeline in the world (the longest being the Druzhba pipeline from Russia to central Europe). See Wikipedia.

Answer 4

CORRECT, ON BOTH ACCOUNTS!! They are experiencing a resurgence of inferiority complex, and must display their power.
ALSO, Russia has some internal problems with their former alliances and military commitments!!!
Furthermore, I believe that Russia senses the hopelessness in our current situation / s , and Russia wants everyone to understand that just because they are no longer involved in the "cold war", they do have the military might,(and history) to "kick asz" should any fool attempt to attack them in any way !!!!!!In other words, 'WORLD, BEWARE, WE ARE NOT POLITICAL WHIMPS, AND WE HAVE THE NECESSARY ABILITY AND HISTORY, TO RESPOND, IN THE EVENT YOU TERRORISE US" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I BELIEVE THIS TO GIVE ADVANCE WARNING TO THOSE WHO WISH TO "DO THE USA IN" !!!!!!!!
Uncle Wil