Posted on 04/07/2021 2:15:17 PM PDT by Heartlander
Nature abhors a vacuum. So does the international stage. And with Joe Biden showing all the toughness of tissue paper, our rivals and enemies are on the move to take advantage.
Russia has moved heavy artillery and tanks towards the Ukraine border, raising fears of an imminent offensive action. 4,000 heavily armed troops are on the move in Crimea, a US defense official told CNN. Russia insists it’s just a “training exercise.”
Russian military equipment on the Crimean Bridge. 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled howitzers, various trucks, BMP-3 IFVs.
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— Status-6 (@Archer83Able) March 31, 2021
“But Al, Ukraine’s so far away.”
Well, how about Russia toying with Alaska? Russia is now spending “hours” in airspace near Alaska, the head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command said last week. Air Force General Glen VanHerck says Russia’s been expanding its activities in the Arctic region. “Clearly,” he said, “Russia is trying to reassert on a global stage their influence and capabilities.”
“Just days ago,” says Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavey, “Russia broke the Arctic ice with three nuclear submarines, while Russian LNG tankers made a winder journey along our coastline for the first time earlier this year.”
The Bear is pawing at our back door.
China’s also upping its activity in the Arctic. In an op ed for Daily Caller News Foundation, Gov. Dunleavey warned of the combined Russia and China threat to his state and region. China, he said, is “preparing to lay claim to what it calls the ‘Polar Silk Road.’” That is, creating shipping routes and mining lucrative mineral resources across the Arctic. (And for that matter, the Antarctic.) The details of their five-year plan were released in early March.
Meanwhile, in the warmer...
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It’s all good - America is more woke now
Da TV peoples sez so
Can we get a Harris Ho chuckle?
With Biden as President our enemies no longer fear us...
There’s no Doubt about it..
Historically, a “training exercise “ has been the pretense for massing forces near an adversary’s border. It is relatively easy to wheel from an exercise to launch an attack. This why the Norks get so crazy when we have maneuvers with the SK military.
Question is “who is the real commander in chief?” I don’t know, do you?
Biden : the communist paid good money for him
I'll put up a welcome sign for the Russians if they agree to wipeout the Democrat party.
Russia will act, just to see if Germany, France or Poland say anything. Biden will try to sound all Trump, send out Harris and Rice—but do little. What can he do? Start a world War? For a slice of Ukraine? I think not. China will tell him to back down. If we are nuked—they lose their most valuable customer. In the end, Russia will get bigger, Ukraine smaller.
What is so alarming with LNG tankers? It is just business vessels.
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