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Trump Confronts Russia With the Fleet Obama ‘Sank’
FrontPage ^ | August 2, 2018 | Greenfield

Posted on 08/02/2018 6:55:42 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell

Trump Confronts Russia With the Fleet Obama ‘Sank’ What real power and national greatness look like. August 2, 2018 Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.

On October 1962, destroyers from the Second Fleet streamed out to intercept Russian vessels suspected of delivering missiles to Cuba. Under the shadow of DEFCON 2, Vice Admiral Alfred Ward, commander of the Second Fleet, watched over a blockade of Cuba. The Navy men putting Russian ships under their guns knew that they were the tip of the spear in what might at any moment become the next world war.

The Russians had ordered their ships to keep going. It was up to the Second Fleet to hold the line.

"Admiral, it looks as though this is up to the Navy," President Kennedy told Admiral Anderson.

“Mr. President,” the admiral replied, “the Navy will not let you down.”

On September 2011, under the leftist politico whose admirers tried to sell him as another JFK, the flag of the Second Fleet was taken down. The fleet that had taken point against the Russians was no more.

The justification for the disestablishment of the Second Fleet was the diminished threat from Russia. The Navy was being cut to pieces while Obama focused on boondoggles like the “Green Fleet”.

“Our Navy is smaller now than any time since 1917,” Mitt Romney had objected next year during a presidential debate. "We also have fewer horses and bayonets," Obama sneered, to the cheers of the media. "The question is not a game of Battleship where we're counting ships."

When Romney brought up the Russian threat, Obama sneered some more. "The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because, you know, the Cold War's been over for 20 years."

These days, Obama’s party is mired in a haze of Russian paranoia. But it was their leader who dismantled our first lines of defense and Trump who is restoring our military deterrence.

Seven years after Obama shuttered the Second Fleet, its flag is flying again. The fleet isn’t green any more, it is mean. And it will watch over the East Coast and the Atlantic to checkmate Russian subs.

The shutdown of the Second Fleet was part of Obama’s failed pivot to Asia which ended with a humiliating apology to China for flying a plane too close to one of the Communist dictatorship’s fake South China Sea islands. (Trump has since dispatched B-52s, outraging China, with no apology.)

That was December 2015.

On January 2016, the complete collapse of naval credibility led Iran to seize two United States Navy boats, steal classified information, hold their crews hostage and humiliate them on television.

Obama had forced the Navy to grovel to China. Why not Iran?

Instead of taking decisive action against this second Iran hostage crisis, the appeasement administration instead used it to spin the success of the Iran Deal. The humiliation of the Navy was complete.

But the humiliation of the United States Navy and the United States of America ended on Jan 20, 2017.

The restoration of the Second Fleet is an important step in the revival of America’s Navy. But the full scope of the harm Obama inflicted on our readiness will take generations of hard work to repair.

The USS Enterprise, the descendant of a fabled history stretching back to the American Revolution, which took part in the Cuban blockade, was scrapped by Obama. The Enterprise was one of six carriers scrapped by Obama who wasn’t interested in counting ships or horses and bayonets.

Or in fulfilling the congressional mandate to maintain at least eleven aircraft carriers at all times. Scrapping the USS Enterprise took us to ten even though 10 U.S. Code § 5062 specifically states, "The naval combat forces of the Navy shall include not less than 11 operational aircraft carriers."

Obama broke the law. He undermined our national security. And once again, he got away with it.


TOPICS: Cuba; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: bloggers; china; cuba; greenfield; iran; mediawingofthednc; obamanation; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; russia; secondfleet; smearmachine
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To: Louis Foxwell

Ironic, just now re-reading “The Hunt for Red October” after decades.


21 posted on 08/02/2018 8:51:23 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: Louis Foxwell

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22607/the-navy-could-need-more-than-15-years-and-over-1-5b-to-scrap-uss-enterprise


22 posted on 08/02/2018 8:52:53 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: JudgemAll

Yup.

I believe Saratoga (CV-60) was the last carrier that a scrapper paid money for a few years back.

One penny. Seriously.


23 posted on 08/02/2018 9:02:18 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Louis Foxwell

Yeah but, could they pause Lamaze classes and transgender training and Pride events and hooking up with whatever long enough to be the Navy again?


24 posted on 08/02/2018 9:42:02 PM PDT by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Thanks for the ping... I thought I was missing one Greenfield... glad that’s not the case.


25 posted on 08/02/2018 9:45:25 PM PDT by GOPJ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4 STOP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-IsingvI_I)
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To: DoughtyOne

Obama was so “in the bag” for Islam, it was just astounding.
He was the “Shuck and Jive president, while our nation was being stripped of it’s assets.

The man brought terrorists into the White House, and appointed them to positions in our government.

He armed and funded two different terrorist groups.

Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood were his best buds when it came to Islamic fellow travelers.

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That’s right, It was part of Obama’s plan to bleed America to death by a thousand cuts. When Obama left, the USA was running out of blood.


26 posted on 08/02/2018 10:26:35 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Please add me to the group.....straps


27 posted on 08/02/2018 10:41:12 PM PDT by straps (we elected a commander in chief, not a pastor in chief...)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Please add me to the ping list—yldstrk


28 posted on 08/03/2018 4:31:25 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Where did the ships and sailors come from? They had to have been carved out of other commands meaning we are still stretched very thin. Meanwhile, still no rolling back of lunatic left wing experiments in the military as a whole, a complete and abject failure on the part of lap dog Mattis.


29 posted on 08/03/2018 5:53:25 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Louis Foxwell
And once again, he got away with it.

The greatest fraud ever perpetrated against the United States.

30 posted on 08/03/2018 6:20:47 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Ah, yes. Our criminal Congress....


31 posted on 08/03/2018 6:25:08 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Snickering Hound

The problem with that is replacing 50 year old parts that just aren’t made any more. In an emergency, I suppose she could be underway in a few months, but long term is not an option.


32 posted on 08/03/2018 9:21:25 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The ONLY purpose for gun control is so that one group can force its will on a less powerful group.)
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To: JudgemAll

Half the world relies on our military to keep regional conflicts from spreading to inside their borders.


33 posted on 08/03/2018 9:23:25 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The ONLY purpose for gun control is so that one group can force its will on a less powerful group.)
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To: laplata

Agreed...


34 posted on 08/03/2018 10:27:54 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

They didn’t call her “The Shitty Kitty” for nothing. She was downed repeatedly for engineering deficiencies late in her career. That’s what constant deployments without adequate yard time will get you.


35 posted on 08/04/2018 7:14:25 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Snickering Hound

At the end, the Kitty had no arresting gear. Most likely they’ve stripped her catapults & jet blast deflectors for spare parts. Bet most of her radar & comms are gone too.


36 posted on 08/04/2018 7:18:02 AM PDT by Tallguy
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