Posted on 09/20/2024 10:11:02 PM PDT by McGruff
The U.S. military is steadily boosting its presence near Alaska, deploying a destroyer and an Army unit armed with a long-range missile system as tensions rise due to stepped-up Russian and Chinese military activities near the Alaskan coast.
Over the past month, the destroyer USS Sterett has been dispatched to the Alaskan coast in response to the Russian navy ships operating in the area, Army troops have landed on a remote Alaskan island, and fighter squadrons and other aircraft based in Alaska have been placed on heightened alert. The actions follow a series of Russian air operations that skirted Alaskan airspace and as Russian and Chinese warships conducted joint exercises across the Pacific near Japan.
Moscow has taken to flexing its muscles in the Indo-Pacific and the Arctic as its relationship with China deepens thanks in part to the war in Ukraine.
Russia’s foreign minister is warning that it is “fully ready” for a conflict with NATO in the Arctic.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming. /sarc
Excellent, Pollute-ico, Excellent.
Nothing scares the masses into submission like a Nuclear World War III.
COVID-19(84) did a pretty good job but now TPTB need something BIGGER and SCARIER.
World order is falling apart. We’ll soon be riding on dog sleds. /sarc
“One if by ice, and two if by sea.”
Kiska Island, Alaska. Significance: Kiska was the first of two Aleutian Islands occupied by the Japanese during World War II
What is that from? “1941”?
If we get into a war with Ru$$ia, that’s really going to upset all the folks who put money on “civil war in the USA.”
Yeah. Civil wars are hard to fight when the population has been nuked by the hubris of politicians.
“ COVID-19(84)”
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That’s a keeper.
Might be Little Diomede ... perhaps not?
The Battle of Kiska
By Andrew Pietruszka, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/18kiska/background/history/history.html
Very interesting.
If Kammy gets in the WH we will be using horse and buggies.
No Horsepower! That’s racist!
They are heading to Eareckson Air Station , formerly Shemya Air Force Base, is a United States Air Force military airport located on the island of Shemya, in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands.
The airport was closed as an active Air Force Station on 1 July 1994. However, it is still owned by the USAF and is operated by the USAF Pacific Air Forces Regional Support Center at Elmendorf AFB for refueling purposes. It also serves as a diversion airport for civilian aircraft. The base previously hosted the AN/FPS-17 and AN/FPS-80 radars and since 1977 the more powerful AN/FPS-108 COBRA DANE phased-array radar.
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eareckson_Air_Station
Been there many times in the 1980s as part of my work with the 11th Wing.
No desire to return.
Might be Little Diomede ... perhaps not?
The other island was Attu.
The Battle of Attu was the largest land battle on American soil since the Civil War. The well positioned but ill-supplied Japanese garrison of around 2600 was nearly wiped out. The American 7th Infantry Division was training for desert fighting and lacked equipment to fight in ice and snow. They suffered approximately 3500 dead, wounded, and frostbite/illness.
Charlton Heston was stationed in the Aleutians during WW2.
Shemya - Not the end of the World, but you can see it from here.
On T-Shirts back in the 80s..
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