That profile of the TU-160 looks remarkably like the B1-B, the red stars giving it away. (I was a very small part of the B1 design many years ago)

Given Russia's access to crude oil resources and the facts that 97% of the US government's expenditure for fuel is for the Department of Defense, that 53% of this is for the Air Force, 89% being for aviation, and every $10 per barrel increase in crude oil increasing the aviation costs by $600M per year, what better way is there for Russia to "stick it in the eye" of the US? In the current environment that includes U.S. dependency on foreign crude oil supplies from politically unstable regions, IMO gearing all that cold war stuff all back up, including sufficient stockpiles to mitigate supply disruption, to match this global presence is going to make the U.S. response very, very expensive.

Perhaps with this development the urgent need to convert the civilian wheeled transportation fleet to electricity will begin making a lot more sense to a lot more people and we can begin making serious moves in that direction, including serious initiatives for light rail.