Those Were the Days!

In the past few weeks, a pair of ignorant politicians named Barack Obama and John Kerry, egged on by a coterie of neo-con hangers-on from George W. Bush Administration such as the infamous agent provacateur Victoria "Fuck the E.U." Nuland, have reignited the Cold War, simply because the 96.77% of the voters of Crimea decided in an internationally-supervised, and totally transparent referendum to reunite with Russia. [See Jagoriade post dated March 29, 2014, The Truth about Crimea, the Ukraine and Russia]. 

Who can believe that only a few years ago United States and Russia were actively collaborating on a supersonic test aircraft, the TU-144 LL? 

Here's a view of the TU -144 LL: note the American and Russian flags emblazoned on the vertical stabilizer.

The project was a joint venture between NASA and Tupelov, as can be seen in the official insignia below.

The aircraft was basically a TU–144 [the "Russian Concorde"] equipped with four gargantuan engines from the supersonic, swing-wing TU–160 Blackjack, the largest largest supersonic aircraft ever constructed. The passenger compartment was converted into a flying laboratory and filled with scientific test equipment.

View this four-minute video clip of the TU-144 LL [French narration], a concrete example of peaceful and mutually-beneficial American-Russian cooperation. 

How long will it be before Russia and America work together peacefully again?