Los planes de Putin para rearmar Rusia

Llevamos días leyendo noticias que apuntan a un rearme ruso. Hoy, el diario británico The Sunday Telegraph comenta, en un interesante reportaje, los planes de Putin para poner a sus Fuerzas Armadas al nivel de 1989.

En primer lugar, se habla de las razones que han llevado a Putin a este rearme:

Various theories have been put forward for the dramatic military expansion, not least the need to appeal to nationalists in the run-up to forthcoming parliamentary and presidential elections. The real reason, however, appears to be that Russia has taken offence at what it regards as the West's insulting indifference to its very existence.

Más adelante, el diario británico nos hace un resumen de la escalada emprendida por Rusia en las últimas semanas:

While Russia's submariners have managed to upset even the mild-mannered Norwegians and Canadians by planting a flag under the Arctic ice, its long range TU-95 Bear bombers have rattled America's cage by buzzing its US naval base on the island of Guam in the western Pacific. The Georgians are furious after a Russian missile landed on the outskirts of a village near Tbilisi and a series of war games in Russia's southern Ural Mountains featuring some 6,500 troops from Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan sparked Western concern over the emergence of a new Warsaw Pact.

Los planes de rearme ruso abarcan todos los ámbitos. Así, se contempla modernizar las fuerzas aéreas, la Armada y proveer al Ejército de Tierra con nuevos carros de combate. ¿Estamos ante el nacimiento de una superpotencia militar?