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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I’m interested in some news. But repeating what msm already reported days ago is very common for internet blogs. It’s a question of advertising clicks so unfortunately many reprint anything to get attention. And the more notorious just add outrageous headlines just to get folks to click on the story .
Not a few minutes after the first pic with Clouseau pointing his baton at the minkey he’s in Dreyfus’s office getting chewed out.
“The minkey was the lookout”, he tells the Chief Inspector.
Dreyfus replies, “No, you idiot, the blind man was the lookout!”
Clouseau, “How can a blind man be a lookout?”
Dreyfus, “How can an idiot be an inspector?”
Clouseau replies, “Well, first he goes to the police academy...”
That scene always made me crack up!!!
Sellers was great.
You had me at Peter Sellers. I will find and watch.
Nothing has been Khazarian in 1006 years. Do you normally post the delusional rantings of the ignorant and mentally ill?
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