Posted on 10/25/2022 3:26:41 PM PDT by elpadre
Last week on October 19 the US Navy announced that “General Michael ‘Erik’ Kurilla [lead image, lower right] , commander of CENTCOM, conducted a visit aboard the USS West Virginia [top], a U.S. Navy Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine at an undisclosed location at sea in international waters in the Arabian Sea. Kurilla was joined on the USS West Virginia by Vice Admiral Brad Cooper [lower left], commander of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet and NAVCENT.”
The Fifth Fleet and the Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) are headquartered at Bahrain on the Persian Gulf. From Bahrain down the Gulf to the Masirah Island airbase, off Oman, is a flight distance of 1,047 kilometres. From Masirah to the West Virginia and its escort was within helicopter flight range.
Two days later, the Pentagon reported that “on October 21, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke by phone with Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu. Secretary Austin emphasized the importance of maintaining lines of communication amid the ongoing war against Ukraine.” They spoke again on October 23, according to Austin’s spokesman, because Shoigu had “requested a follow up call.”
Less than 24 hours elapsed before Austin telephoned his Kiev counterpart, Alexei Reznikov, to “reiterate[d] that the United States rejects the public and false allegations by Russia about Ukraine and any attempt to use them as a pretext for further Russian escalation of its unlawful and unjustified war against Ukraine.”
The same day, in the Moscow evening, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a communiqué confirming that “Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley spoke with Chief of Russian General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov today by phone. The military leaders discussed ....
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It is interesting that foreign media, Iceland in this case, know so much more about our military whereabouts and plans than Americans.
What do you expect from some rag no 0ne has ever heard of and which reports nothing of any news value?
I thought it was as the policy of the US not to strike first with Nukes?!
We're focused on tranny teens interviewing the Vegetable-in-Chief.
There are some good fiction authors in Iceland.
“..What do you expect from some rag no 0ne has ever heard of and which reports nothing of any news value?..”
I found it interesting and thought you might too. I hope some other news organization also reports on the matter so we can see other views.
Use to be. If we spun the ICBM’s up, it would only be in response. This was early 1970’s. Only seen us do it once due to a garbled weapons drill message. It scared the hell oughta me. If the lion gets loose. It’ll be a long hard winter.
One of my favorite movies. He only drank distilled water or rain water and pure grain alcohol. To replenish his “precious bodily fluids.” Hilarious film.
Why would you suppose they are constrained by "U.S. Policy"?
Purity of essence.
Have you ever seen a Communist drink tap water Mandrake?...
Dr. Strangelove lines:
Our doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we’d been spending on defense in a single year. But the deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap.”
“This is preposterous. I’ve never approved of anything like that.”
“Our source was the New York Times.”
What a bunch of crap. Nothing but innuendo and conjecture. And the headline is sensationalism at its most fundamental.
Tom Clancy would laugh at this tripe.
That’s it; I have to put in the DVD tonight. Every couple of years I watch it. May as well watch it tonight. :)
I thought it was as the policy of the US not to strike first with Nukes?!“
We say that but when the time comes, the first to strike wins as the other side won’t have time to respond.
Great flick.
Solid plan. I might as well.
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