Russia is once again pretending to scare the U.S. by sailing one of its broken down cold war relics or “warship” as they call it across the Panama Canal.

A Russian warship will sail through the Panama Canal this week for the first time since World War II, the navy announced Wednesday, pushing ahead with a symbolic projection of Moscow’s power in a traditional U.S. zone of influence.

The destroyer Admiral Chabanenko will arrive Friday at a former U.S. naval base in Panama’s Pacific port of Balboa for a six-day visit after carrying out joint maneuvers with the Venezuelan navy in the Caribbean Sea, navy spokesman Capt. Igor Dygalo said in a telephone interview.

The Panama Canal has long been a symbol of U.S. clout in Latin America, and Dygalo said no Soviet or Russian military ship has sailed through it since World War II. The wartime alliance between the U.S. and the Soviet Union swiftly gave way to the mistrust, military buildups and proxy conflicts of the Cold War.

In a throwback to those times, the Russian navy statement announcing the plans referred to the base the Admiral Chabanenko will visit as Rodman naval base—its name when it was a U.S. base many years ago.

The fact that Putin really believes the U.S. is going to feel threatened by Russia’s laughable, broke down navy shows how out of touch he really is. The only thing that makes Russia a military player in the world at all is its nuclear arsenal. Beyond that, Russia’s military is a joke. The once mighty navy of the Soviet Union has been reduced to nothing in modern day Russia.

The same thing goes for Russia’s flyovers. Russia thinks they’re scaring us by flying their old cold war bombers into Alaskan territory and elsewhere. Those bombers belong in a damn museum not buzzing the U.S.

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