Posted on 03/09/2023 2:59:49 AM PST by EBH
U.S. military commanders and experts are sounding warnings about the buildup of Russian submarines off American coasts.
The Russian buildup of naval assets is more expansive than just the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, and it includes seas surrounding the United States, sources told Newsweek.
"Nuclear-powered submarines have been deploying off the coast of the United States and into the Mediterranean and elsewhere along Europe periphery," Russia Maritime Studies Institute (RMSI) Director Michael Peterson told Newsweek, warning the deployments "mirror Soviet style submarine deployments in the Cold War."
Among the assets off the coasts are nuclear-capable submarines in the Severodvinsk class, which was also has been warned by U.S. Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, who runs the Northern Command and NORAD.
"They just moved subs, their first [Severodvinsk submarine] into the Pacific," VanHerck warned last October. "Another is out in the Mediterranean right now, and another that's out on its way into the Atlantic. That will be a persistent, proximate threat capable of carrying a significant number of land-attack cruise missiles that can threaten our homeland."
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Funny you say that; the impression I get is that Americans hate Russians WAY more than Russians hate Americans.
People on the “right” are making comments pretty much identical to shat the Marxists America haters said the 60’s.
I hate to tell you, but given the current makeup of America's government and the increasing woke-ification of the American military, it's not the 1960s anymore. The "America-haters" in D.C. are the ones currently cheering for our military interventions.
Any sign of our nation projecting power around the world is met with self loathing comments .
Because American power projection over the past two decades has just gone swimmingly, hasn't it? Our government hollows out our industrial base, lets illegals and drugs swarm through the native populace, and demonstrates nothing but animus against the traditional values we claim to hold dear. But hey, we can still project power overseas in increasingly feckless and irrational ways, so it's all good, am I right?
So in your mind we just retreat from the world stage .
Better get that trip to Hawaii in soon.
The Chinese will own the sea lanes a month after we retreat.
All I know is that when Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Lindsey Graham are all on the same side of any foreign/military policy issue, ordinary citizens of the U.S. are at great risk … and the proper role of the Federal government under the U.S. Constitution is the last thing anyone cares about.
Great post.
Well truth in what you say. However becoming an opponent of our nation and our military just because the wrong party is in the White House isn’t a good strategy .
The hippie freaks said the same thing when Reagan was president .
Putin was funding and assisting European terrorist groups when Reagan was in, and pro-Russia Europe was white hot with rage in the streets against Reagan, massive demonstrations, and kidnappings and murders of GIs with bombings and attempted bombings of bases and civilian targets.
Putin getting rabid support from some Americans is not new.
“ Putin getting rabid support from some Americans is not new.”
I won’t be surprised to find out that some aren’t Americans.
Russia knows how to generate propaganda .
That’s a fair comment that might apply to many Freepers, but it sure doesn’t apply to me. I would have said the same thing if there was a Republican in the White House. In fact, I burned a few bridges here on FR over my vocal opposition to the stupid U.S. military intervention in Iraq 20 years ago.
Thank you. We made a lot of predictions about hull use in 1984 that proved prescient.
The people who hate our country appear to be in charge. What’s your point.
Russia is famous for its skills in propaganda and mind shaping and brainwashing.
But that's not what happened. What did happen was just total incompetence.
a Navy report last year concluded the fire that destroyed the $1.2 billion amphibious assault ship was preventable and unacceptable and that there were lapses in training, coordination, communications, fire preparedness, equipment maintenance and overall command and control. The failure to extinguish or contain the fire led to temperatures exceeding 1,200 degrees (649 Celsius) in some areas, melting sections of the ship into molten metal that flowed into other parts of the ship.
“You are greatly underestimating the capability of civilian scuba divers to operate at deep depths. I am acquainted with several here in the Great lakes who routinely dive to depths in excess of 250’ using Trimix, electrically heated dry suits and stage bottles for decompression.”
For a “bounce dive” down a line to a anchor point, yes, it’s possible.
For guys to charter a yacht, assemble all the needed gear unnoticed, get out to the site, locate the pipelines in 8 different locations and put multi-100 LB prepared linear shaped charges on the pipe casings, all in one night, get away, and remote detonate them? Doing all of the decom stops on each dive, at 8 different locations? From a chartered boat?
BULLSHIT. BULLSHIT BULLSHIT.
IOW: Did I tell you about the time I climbed Mt Everest solo? I didn’t want publicity so I did it at night. Just take my word for it.
Yeah, just trust me on it, because years back a few guys did do fast “alpine” solo-no oxygen Everest summits.
Hell, I did it with 100# of gear on my back. Then I jumped from the summit in my wing suit and parachuted to my waiting escape truck, that I had rented and pre-positioned.
That’s your working theory of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage.
BULLSHIT.
“The people who hate our country appear to be in charge. What’s your point.”
That’s correct, but a different kind of hate.
Re: 90 - I thought that sailor was found not guilty and the case was largely circumstantial?
Too late now, gentlemen.
I have forwarded your treacherous, intel-laced repartée to my handlers on the полуостров Камчатка.
Our operators now know every thing you know
about where not to anchor.
25. You forget the old adage of “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”.
The potential of a temporary nuclear triangle ( Iran, Iraq and Syria) aimed at Israel, Jordan and possibly Egypt was real. I guess you didn’t hear all the sighs of relief from Egypt and Jordan when Israel took out the Osirik nuclear facility in the 1980’s.
Remember the Ribbentropp-Molotov secret agreements between Stalin and Hitler to carve up Poland. Then they went after each other in something called WW2. It was in all the papers.
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