Used to be common when the USSR was still intact. They buzzed us plenty of times in the North Atlantic.
No longer feared by our enemies, no longer trusted by our friends. Gotta love fundamental transformation, huh?
It’s as simple as that.
A weak American President invites aggression. Right, wrong, that’s the way of the world.
Because LAME DUCK OBAMA is a puss. What do I win?
In all fairness, what would any other president have done? This is an age-old game of cat and mouse.
Hypothetical President Trump response: #StopItPutin or else I’ll build a terrific wall!
I’m sure the threat of the American transgender forces scare the crap out of the Russians.
What is it about the USS Donald Cook? They got buzzed the last time they were in the region.
This is a non-story. Pilots do this shit all the time. I speak from experience, just retired after 24 years as an Army aviator (UH60 Blackhawks mostly). The Russians face less consequences, simple as that.
US pilots can get in some deep shit for hotdogging. Doesn’t mean we always followed the rules, but you really had to pick your spots.
Its just Putin telling the squishy, globalist-progressive Obama that if you want to pretend to be the Nobel Peace Prize saint, while using proxies to muck-around in Russia’s perceived sphere-of-influencei in Georgia, Ukraine, Syria - then he will tweak your nose and embarrass you.
Yesterday he was all over this with multiple stories/links.
All the those links have been removed.
I’m sure it had nothing to do with NATO playing in the Bering Sea.
"Negative, Gulagrider, the pattern is full."
The Lamer Obama gets to more dangerous the World will get
The Russians continue to BUZZ the West Coast .. because they can.
And .. the comment I heard was that as soon as the aircraft SAW the SHIP, they changed their flight pattern ..???
ARE YOU KIDDING ME ..
If the Russians did not know the ship was there, then their aircraft are pretty stupid.
Because we have a whiny, pathetic little bitch of a man who's been pretending he's a President.
This is what you get when you elect a man solely because he's a color that gives the Liberal media orgasms.
The Liberal media elected this guy. We need to smash them to bits for doing it.
The information implicates Putin's ruling entourage and thus Putin himself. That might actually cause his massive popularity at home to slip a bit. He autocratic rule and unchallenged authority depend partly upon his carefully crafted image. To chick away at that image is viewed as direct threat to his rule.
Putin believes that the bank leak was a USA led black operation. He may be entirely correct as the leak seems to have implicated the Russian and Chinese oligarchy in particular. The Russians have quickly responded with their characteristic disinformation campaign while China has blocked all internet access to stories about the leak. Those responses can be viewed as a measure of the seriousness that each regime accords to this threat.
Both the Russian and Chinese regimes have long conducted deep cyber penetrations of US government and US businesses. Both provided direct aid and protection for Edward Snowden who has caused massive harm to US intelligence gathering effort and to US interests.
The embarrassing bank leak could well be payback and a shot across the bow. It demonstrates that the US can play the same game. Putin, in turn, seems to have authorized his own response literally across the USS Donald Cook's bow.
All the news programs I watched that covered this story failed to mention why the US ship did not retailiate. It begs the question why since the planes came so close.
What would they do in the event of a real attack? Just Rope A Dope it and take their hits?