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From a year ago. Has this now become so routine as not to merit mention.
1 posted on 01/21/2016 6:20:05 PM PST by robowombat
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Where were they going? What is that far away?


2 posted on 01/21/2016 6:24:12 PM PST by Gunpowder green
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But they’re our buddies, according to some here.


3 posted on 01/21/2016 6:31:12 PM PST by ozzymandus
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This is because Russia, the largest land empire in the world by more than 50% (6.6m sq miles vs Canada’s 3.8m sq miles), is threatened by the countries that have signed on to protect Russia’s neighbors from Russian conquest and annexation. The Russians are either misunderstood or too strong to resist - take your pick.


4 posted on 01/21/2016 6:52:04 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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I guess what was old is new again and I seem to feel nostalgic for the old Bear. This was routine in the eighties. I was OOD on a Frigate that was buzzed by a Bear back then. And no I don’t mean the pilot had been drinking. The noise and vibration was so intense the engine room called up to the bridge to ask what was going on.


5 posted on 01/21/2016 6:57:44 PM PST by atomic_dog
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6 posted on 01/21/2016 7:30:33 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Free Republic Caucus: vote daily / watch for the thread / Starts 01/20 midnight to midnight EDST)
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England has been playing Cold War with the Russkies again.

Meanwhile the camel's nose and then the entire muslim caravan snuck in under the tent flap and stole their country.


7 posted on 01/21/2016 7:51:04 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: robowombat; Gunpowder green; ozzymandus; Zhang Fei; atomic_dog; Iron Munro
"Has this now become so routine as not to merit mention."

The bipartisan political class folks want every dime to go to their civilian government incomes rather than defense. Like criminals, they have no regard for future consequences of their actions.

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8 posted on 01/21/2016 8:05:50 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy")
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9S3h37GW2g


9 posted on 01/21/2016 8:11:56 PM PST by headstamp 2
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I say - let the EU deal with it themselves. End NATO, which is complicit in the fraud that is the EU superstate and Western Europe’s self-destruction.

It might actually force them to come to their senses, and take seriously defense of their borders, and civilization. The invaders from the mid-east are already raping and pillaging their country.


11 posted on 01/21/2016 9:08:04 PM PST by PGR88
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