Sky-High Theater: How Russian Fighter Jets Became the World’s Favorite Geopolitical Prop
The silver-gray silhouettes that streak across the Sea of Okhotsk are not just machines; they are postcards from a country that insists on writing in all-caps. Russian fighter jets—Sukhois, MiGs, and that theatrical new kid, the Su-57 “Felon”—have become the Kremlin’s preferred punctuation marks in every geopolitical sentence it deems too subtle. One day they…