Posted on 03/14/2023 10:06:46 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russian fighter jet collides with US surveillance drone over Black Sea, forcing US to bring down drone, US military says
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True. That silly story of a SU-27 hitting the prop on that thing and we had to bring it down ourselves doesn’t pass the straight face test.
Wonder where it was?
But this shouldn’t surprise anybody. Nuland just went on TV and said the US was helping Ukraine strike Crimea and thought they should. That clearly makes our surveillance/attack aircraft a legitimate target.
What consequences are you looking for, WWIII? Given time this tinder box will give you precisely that.
Do you recall how the US Soviet nuclear war started in the novel ‘Alas, Babylon’?
Accident involving air to air missile.
“Nuland told the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. Asked about the dangers of escalation in the Ukraine war, Nuland said Russia had a host of military installations crucial for the conflict. “Those are legitimate targets, Ukraine is hitting them and we are supporting that,” Nuland said.”
Only a couple of weeks ago. An unmanned spy/attack drone there is a legitimate target. At least as legitimate as Nordsteam II was for us.
I guess the US plans are for a professional environmentalist war against the Russians. What could go wrong?
Just a matter of time.
I remember that incident. He should have been grounded before that fatal day.
Compared to the Pentagon? That’s rich!
“But it didn’t get shot down. The Russian jet hit the rear-mounted propeller of the MQ-9.”
According to the DOD. They also say we didn’t blow up Nordstream, etc etc. None of us know how it was brought down, nor where it was. Was it in that 12 mile limit Russia claims by international treaty? Sometimes we go inside that claiming “Ukraine said we could” because we pretend Crimea belongs to Ukraine.
Flight tracker doesn’t help either. Like our people are incapable of spoofing that?
So really, all of us are guessing.
Right? Who are these limp-wristed, latte-sipping, loafer-wearing pansies writing reports for EUCOM? Good grief.
Yes they did. And they are still fighting nazis here in 2023.
I don’t know which Government I believe less, ours or theirs.
After the Nordstream attack and the subsequent absence of outrage on the last of decent Americans and most Germans even, I’m increasingly like “Whatever,” when I hear news like this.
Well, if Russia wants to shoot down US aircraft in international airspace then we can start shooting down theirs.
That’s how these things work.
yep. definitely brings to mind that scene.
The first and best Clancy film and his politics and life aside, Baldwin was the best Jack Ryan as Clancy created him.
Practically, there is no difference. They just didn’t use esplosives.
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