Posted on 08/19/2007 6:50:57 AM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
“...have rattled America’s cage by buzzing its US naval base on the island of Guam in the western Pacific.”
Typical MSM misinformation. This sentance implies that the Bears directly flew over Anderson AFB, something that never happened.
Hmm, I should have known. It’s all Bush’s fault.
It already has.
It's the Russians now, not the USSR. ; )
Russia was our friend as long as we gave them some money and assistance to rebuild their economy.
Now that we have bailed them out we see their true motives.
Russia should never be trusted.
And we have allowed an enemy to re-arm.
Shame on Washington DC.
After seeing US foreign policy in action in Serbia and Kosovo, I am glad we are back in a multi polar world.
Yes, as I recall, the President looked into Putin’s eyes... and saw this coming.
And a certain Senator Lugar who came up with the idea to have America buy Russia’s old nukes so they could build new nukes.
If you show weakness in the face of an enemy, you do so at your own peril...
Even the guy at the local bar knows this.
It impresses a picture of the likes of Tom Cruise doing a flyby just shy of mach 1 only to sensationalize what really transpired.
Just another example as to taking what the MSM conveys with a grain of salt until they are proved accurate by another source.
this might be a good time start remembering flight 007.
Looks like the F-22 production run will increase.
But I thought that we could buy friendship?
Didn't we gain a friend in the PRNK by pumping money into their war machine? (I mean economy?)
I doubt that.
The F-35 will replace the F-22.
Then THAT will be increased! : D
I’m not... I prefer that the US remains the only Superpower..
$100 billion spread over how many years? The story doesn’t specify but suggests at least a decade. Perhaps equal to one or two years of Pentagon procurement. Absent some sort of quantum-leap breakthrough this only means Russia falls behind the west at a slower rate.
Then there is the issue of Russian quality control and expertise. The old USSR navy was pretty but in hindsight a failure in nearly every significant category other then raw numbers. The Typhoons, the carriers, the battle-cruisers could rarely leave port. The tanks and aircraft were bested on every battlefield when opposed by modern western equipment if unencumbered by suicidal rules of engagement.
It’s not clear the Russian military-industrial complex has improved any. The indications are the opposite. The inability to put the carrier sold to India back in working order as an example.
I think it’s mostly bluff, played against nations the Russians have been successfully bluffing for the last century.
Putin’s PR campaign is multiplied and amplified by the P(elosi)R(eid) campaign that is being carried out here by the MSM!
Exactly. The Russian aircraft were intercepted 300 miles from Anderson which means that they were tracked for several thousand miles before that.
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