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AP NEWSBREAK: RUSSIAN JET PASSES NEAR US WARSHIP
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Posted on 04/14/2014 10:18:28 AM PDT by traumer
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To: Starboard
“All it takes is a fabricated provocation.”
Given that we have a weak-kneed beta metrosexual in charge that’s exactly why we need to get that ship out of there.
To: kabar
This was a truely pitiful, but not unexpected, type of “response”. Obama’s weakness knows no bounds.
To: gdani
To: traumer
"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."
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posted on
04/14/2014 12:02:51 PM PDT
by
anymouse
(God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
To: OldMissileer
Back when the Berlin Wall went down I warned people the Soviet Union was not dead by any stretch of the imagination. Some officers of higher rank actually got mad at me for saying such things. The Russians kept up their R&D on their nuclear weapons as we paid them billions of dollars to decommission their old ones. They used the money saved to design newer weapons and now that a total train wreck of a pResident has been in office they are acting almost exactly as I predicted. It is too bad that when I made those predictions I was only a Captain and now most of the flag officers are leftist political hacks who value their positions more than our Country and the Marxist in the White Hut really wants to turn the United States into a worthless third world country.From a global security perspective, the problem with the Russians was never Bolshevism - communism (aka Comintern) merely gave Russian imperialists a convenient excuse and means to extend their empire on the cheap. The Romanov, Bolshevik and post-Bolshevik regimes have one thing in common - the drive for universal empire. It took the loss of 10% of the population for the German people to lose their appetite for empire. We may end up discovering Russia's uncle point if current events continue to their logical conclusion.
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posted on
04/14/2014 12:06:09 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: dforest
I believe they taunt because they know the US will not react but whine, kind of like Eric Holder does when he is challenged.Holder's not whining - he's asserting black privilege.
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posted on
04/14/2014 12:09:09 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: traumer
We’re in their back yard; it is to be expected. Hopefully, we’d show the flag the same way if a Russian warship showed up off Cape Cod or Savannah.
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posted on
04/14/2014 12:13:51 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: Sacajaweau
Absolutely no reason for us to have a ship there. Its taunting and stupid.Do you consider "Russian bombers buzz U.S. territory again" taunting and stupid? Or do you only think that way when US ships patrol international waters near NATO allies like Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey?
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posted on
04/14/2014 12:13:51 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: traumer
There was a time, and not too long ago when that Russkie jet would have been blown to bits, but not by our “Chicken in Chief”.
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posted on
04/14/2014 12:15:43 PM PDT
by
kenmcg
To: JimRed
You pass within 1000 feet, you are getting shot down
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posted on
04/14/2014 12:16:24 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: wideawake
The Black Sea isn't Russia's coastline It sure looks like the have a lot of coastline on the Black Sea.
To: Georgia Girl 2
Hate to break into your dream world, but no U.S. admiral of ANY era would have put a carrier into the Black Sea. Too easy to find and sink. Carriers operate best a few hundred miles from the opponents airfields so they have room to maneuver and keep the destroyer screen spread out across the threat axis. The only reason we put carriers into the Persian Gulf is because neither the Iraqis or the Taliban were/are an air threat.
The SU-24 was a reminder, not a real threat. The only real threat to the destroyer was the other Russian airplane further overhead.
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posted on
04/14/2014 12:27:53 PM PDT
by
Pecos
(The Chicago Way: Kill the Constitution, one step at a time.)
To: dforest
I dont think the Russians think the US is being a grownup here. I believe they taunt because they know the US will not react but whine, kind of like Eric Holder does when he is challenged. Best insight on thread.
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posted on
04/14/2014 12:34:38 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature not nurture)
To: Dalberg-Acton
Again, the Black Sea does not belong to Russia any more than the Gulf of Mexico belongs to the United States.
Your adoption of Putin propaganda is noted.
To: GeronL
You pass within 1000 feet, you are getting shot down As long as you're prepared to deal with the never-ending incoming barrage of cruise missiles, long after the Phalanx has run out of ammo.
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posted on
04/14/2014 12:38:42 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature not nurture)
To: traumer
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posted on
04/14/2014 12:40:30 PM PDT
by
McGruff
To: wideawake
Geography is Putin propaganda now? Cartographers of the world, unite!
To: Dalberg-Acton
By that very map, US allies have quite a bit more coastline on the Black Sea than does Russia.
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posted on
04/14/2014 12:53:48 PM PDT
by
Paul R.
(Leftists desire to control everything; In the end they invariably control nothing worth a damn.)
To: Paul R.
Turkey, alone, has more coastline.
To: Dalberg-Acton
By that, I mean not even counting the other countries, Turkey has more coastline on the Black Sea than does Russia.
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