Russia's Northern Fleet Put on Full Alert in Arctic

The Moscow Times ^ | Mar. 16 2015 12:21 Last edited 15:24 | Reuters

[WhiskeyX]

More than 45,000 Russian troops as well as war planes and submarines started military exercises across much of the country on Monday in one of the Kremlin's biggest shows of force since its ties with the West plunged to Cold War-lows.

President Vladimir Putin called the Navy's Northern Fleet to full combat readiness in exercises in Russia's Arctic North apparently aimed at dwarfing military drills in neighboring Norway, a NATO member.

[AU72]

Red Storm Rising

[WhiskeyX]

Next thing you know they’ll blow up another one of their nuclear ballistic missile submarines like the Kursk.

[exPBRrat]

Pray for peace ....we have affirmative action at the helm and require divine intercession.

[KC_Lion]

[cuban leaf]

Red Storm Rising

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That is EXACTLY where I was going too. This is actually significant. And then the story about the Russian journalist fleeing because of a hit list...

[cuban leaf]

Red Storm Rising

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That is EXACTLY where I was going too. This is actually significant. And then the story about the Russian journalist fleeing because of a hit list...

Oh, and the other article about his rhetoric regarding use of Nukes during the Crimea thingee...

[yldstrk]

All three of them?

[hlmencken3]

They’re gonna seize Wrangel Island! Ask Joe Miller.

[C210N]

Is there evidence that Putin read RSR, along the lines of our POSOTUS reading The Post American World?

[AU72]

“It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”

[Tallguy]

You've lost another submarine, Yuri?!

[lavaroise]

Well, at least they had real men manning the Kursk, not some gay trooper.

[American Constitutionalist]

Might as well add in there the report of Russia taunting or flying their planes near the island of Guam, or reports off Russian bombers skirting US territory in the Gulf of Mexico.
What about the rumored reports of Russian troops actually in the USA training ?

[tanknetter]

Small correction: the Kursk was a cruise missile, not ballistic missile, sub.

[WhiskeyX]

Yes, thank you for the distinction and correction. I misspoke.

[SunkenCiv]

• Norway: Relations with Russia will never again be the same [2015]
• Jens Stoltenberg: the new man at Nato who must stand up to Putin and his tanks [2014]
• Northern European nations pledge military cooperation against Russia [2014]
• Top secret Armata tank may conquer the Arctic (Russia) [2014]
• Cold War-style spy games return to melting Arctic [2014]
• A New Cold War? Norway Security Service Warns against Russian Spies [2014]
• Norway opens Arctic border area to oil drilling [2013]
• Russia To Deploy Combat Troops Near Norway [2012]
• Arctic Test of the PUMA Armored Infantry Combat Vehicle In Lakselv, Norway [2012]
• Russia Complains About Norwegian Defenses [2012]

[American Constitutionalist]

The nuke deal with Iran are terms of surrendeing our guns and arms to the UN with Iran and North Korea threatening the US with a EMP strike over the conntinental US with Russia threatening to nuke NATO, and China threatening to dump our debt ?

[AppyPappy]

They’ll have all the tugs out for this one.

[GOPJ]

Was Putin in a bomb shelter the last 10 days?