Posted on 09/06/2007 7:49:27 AM PDT by Michael_Michaelangelo
Maybe we should use the opportunity to "practice" shooting those cruise missiles down.
Red Storm Rising....
Obviously Putin is trying to give the impression that Russia is an expanding empire by posturing over a mostly empty ice cap
Exactly. The slumbering bear is back awake. Ezekiel 38 coming on.
Drudge’s headline re Syria shooting at an Israeli plane also hearkens to a certain biblical “burden” that has yet to be fulfilled. Could be a catalyst to the bear making his march.
Have they filed an EIR for this and where is greenpeace?
This exercise is already completed.
The TU-95 is a much more recent design. It was the Russian answer to the B-52.
Ironically, it is an evolutionary development of the B-29. The first post-war Tupolev strategic bomber was the TU-4, a rivet for rivet copy of the B-29.
And the Russian Federation is different from the Soviet Union....how?
Russians are still Russians, paranoid, suspicious and with delusions of being a world power, which they can achieve by making threatening gestures.
Odd they should direct this toward Great Britain and indirectly, the US, rather than Iran or Syria.
My take on this:
Russia is muscle-flexing in regards to our imminent hit on Iran.
For better or worce, Iran and Russia have a kind of alliance.
Russia is really displeased with the way things are going on this planned hit.
I would guess that in addition to this overt show of power, (which has to be hurting Russian pocketbooks plenty)is all kinds of back-channel jaw boning and outright threats.
Puty-Pute is up to his neck in this thing. His message?
Nuking Iran would be a serious mistake.
IMHO
a certain Biblical “burden”? Am not sure what that means.
But do know if Russia is not the sponsor of a massive war involving Israel, then the Bible is a lie.
It is NOT a lie, so we know these ancient words from God himself, shall come to pass. We should be on our knees in prayer, those who believe in prayer, for God’s grace during the evidently approaching war.
Ezekiel 38 and 39
Russian oil which fuels the resurgent military now joins Saudi oil as a dangerous instrument of anti-Western foreign policy. And still our Congress sleeps.
Burden of Damascus. Syria is not in the nations in Ezek 38 & 39.
It's all about the oil. Russia wants to extend right up to the North Pole the territory it controls in the Arctic, believed to hold vast reserves of untapped oil and natural gas.
Well, since they got that wrong...
The TU-4 was the matchup for (and a copy of) the B-29. The Bear is a contemporary of the B-52.
YEs, exactly.
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