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Two Russian Warships Enter Black Sea Through Bosphorus; Another Docks In Cuba
Russia may be awaiting a diplomatic resolution of the Ukraine crisis, but we wouldn't hold our breath especially with the deposed president Yanukovich set to conduct a press conference tomorrow from Russia's Rostov-on-Don at 5pm local time, where we hardly anticipate a scaling back of the escalation in what is sure to not be an abdication from power. Instead, Putin continues to prepare for the worst and is openly signalling to the West that if he has to fight to regain influence in the Ukraine, he will, as a top Kremlin politician warned last week. As such it was not surprising to read that two Russian warships, the Minsk and the Kaliningrad which last week were sent out on deployment around Syria, crossed back into the Black Sea, most likely in direction Sevastopol, as the build up of Russian forces in the Crimea continues.
From Bosphorus Nabal News:
Today, two Ropucha class landing ship from Russian Navy passed through Bosphorus returning from their Syrian deployment. As the political crisis in Ukraine particular in Crimea is increasing it is possible that Russian Navy wanted these valuable assets closer to home.
Large landing ship Minsk passing through Bosphorus. Photo: seabreeze.org.ua via webcam.
And in other more perplexing news, AFP reported that a Russian warship was docked in Havana Wednesday, without explanation from Communist Cuba or its state media. "The Viktor Leonov CCB-175 boat, measuring 91.5 meters (300 feet) long and 14.5 meters wide, was docked at the port of Havana's cruise ship area, near the Russian Orthodox Cathedral.
The Vishnya, or Meridian-class intelligence ship, which has a crew of around 200, went into service in the Black Sea in 1988 before it was transferred seven years later to the northern fleet, Russian media sources said.
Neither Cuban authorities nor state media have mentioned the ship's visit, unlike on previous tours by Russian warships.
The former Soviet Union was Cuba's sponsor state through three decades of Cold War. After a period of some distancing under former Russian president Boris Yeltsin, the countries renewed their political, economic and military cooperation.
The ship is reportedly armed with 30mm guns and anti-aircraft missiles.
The Mail adds that The intelligence vessel bristles with electronic eavesdropping equipment and weaponry, including AK-630 rapid-fire cannons and surface-to-air missiles.
Why is Russia planting a spy ship in the US backyard? It might have something to do with John Kerry's earlier admonition that the US is now behaving like a "poor nation" - maybe Russia decided to test just how poor?
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Oh no, sounds like they've got us surrounded. Ivan is one fucking pale shade of what he was 25 years ago.
"Special Delivery from Mr Putin!"
Don't worry, the waters of Florida are swarming with frickin' sharks with laser beams on their heads, and let me tell you Ivan, they know the capital of Texas!
What a sweet car!
Your move, Barry......
Shhhh, he's in the sand on the 14th.
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Kennedy would have sunk the fuckers and asked Putin what was he going to do about it. Kennedy
Thanks..that explains why Kennedy removed those missle from Turkey and Americans never told the facts....
Putins still pissy about Russia losing to Finland. He shouldn't feel too bad, as the Finns went on to decimate America 5-0. Finland, hockeyssuper power, bringing the behemoths to their knees...
There is one they didn't but admitted came closer than anyone else...
I thought it was going to be a riddle.....
"Two Russian Warships Enter Black Sea Through Bosphorus; Another Docks In Cuba"
...and the congressman says "Fuck the kids!"
Then the priest says "I already did"....
\rimshot...
I see a confederate flag on the foremast.
Stack On
In other words, his head is buried in the sand, again!
The only move CIA Barry is going to do is having two huge Cocks. One in his mouth to shut the Fuck up & the othe up his ass were he likes it best.
He would not know what to do with your ta-tas or this.
Looks like a '56 Olds Super 88.
I've seen quite a few nicely preserved yank tanks over there, but sadly most are bondo bombs with Lada engines in them.
Closest thing you'll get to Peabody & Sherman's Wayback Machine is a trip to Habana Viejo.
What a beautiful spot that is, with wonderful cafe's and buck a beer, whats not to love
I just realized that we haven't heard anything in recent years about how much better Cuba's health care compared to the US. i wonder why that is?
You blinked!
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/26/video-marco-rubios-amazing-re...
It's not better they're behind us in life expectancy. By one tenth of a year. For 6k per person less per year. Whatever the us number is per person, Cuba spends about $200 per person per year.
It turns out that food-rationing is not only cheap, but the constant hunger also leads to a longer life without obesity-related problems. No need for health care when food is sparse.
The US spends closer to $8,700 per person...
Sounds like you are for death panels. May I be on that panel when you are sick?
Looks like a '57 Olds to me.
Cuba is now covered for upcoming disclosure.
None of this is what it seems and an international event is just what they need.
"The Vishnya, or Meridian-class intelligence ship"
Vishnya means "cherry."
57 Olds 98 convertible. Sweet indeed!
Couldn't get a proper proxy war going in Syria..second time's the charm?
I declare the games open!!!....Oh! Wait!
Russia will do nothing but lots of noise. Why?
Well, all Russia oligarchs keep their money and their families in EU and the USA. Putin's family and his two daughters live in Germany with his palaces all over Europe. He does not give a shit about Russia and/or Ukraine.
However, Ukraine affair is just a Zionists oligarchy family dispute over ownership over Ukraine. Opposition leaders are all Jews. Timoshenko-Kuperman is Jewish. The new Prime Minister is also Jewish. However, this dispute can and will go out off control.
PS
Back in 1917, Russia became a Jewish Bolshevik colony and nothing has changed since then. Hitler has tried to stop it but he has failed. The USA is not much different: it was a British colony and now it is a zionist colony. Enjoy it...
This Jewish conspiracy nonsense is a waste of people's time, and is extremely dangerous. While there are many Jews in positions of power, disproportionately even, this is very much a contingent aspect of history. The Jewish aspect of money-changing was quite important during the original religious wars, but is not so important today.
Really, does it matter who is in charge of the banks? Would we be better off if it were Calvinists, Muslims, or Zen Buddhists in charge? I highly doubt it.
Further, the current problems have much more to do with capital itself, the state, historical conditions, and ideology than any zionist conspiracy. Remove the zionists and much of the world would still be a wasteland of stupid and immoral people ready to take their place.
And to think that the Zionists are in control of a nation that controls over 25% of the earth? Read your Democracy in America, there are factors in one's own back yard that are primary - not the Jooooos or reptilian aliens.
Hear! Hear!
Except the Joooooooos have a track record like no other of ruining EVERYTHING they touch and having been run out of every decent country as a result. Name another ethnic group that has been as cancerous in history.
Things will not be different this time. Sheeple will rise up against them eventually.
I'd say the Russians have a better good record of fucking things up...
Their high points in history are all associated with a lot of dead people and a brutal dictator on top at the time with the possible exception of Sputnik and then it was merely a dictator...
Weren't they the ones that killed that dog in orbit?
No, that was a relative of Bonzo the Chimp, hence the reason for Ronnie wanting to get revenge when he could...
Troll Magnets?
general ambivalent: "Further, the current problems have much more to do with capital itself, the state, historical conditions, and ideology than any zionist conspiracy."
Personally, I think it has to do more with there being a certain small percentage of the population who are socio-path/psycho-paths. They are physiologically unable to feel empathy or concern for other human beings, even members of their own family. To them, people are objects to be manipulated, exploited, and controlled. They actually enjoy hurting others. They are often smooth talking hucksters who work themselves to the highest levels in society because they hide themselves well and will do anything to get what they want. They are exclusively self centered, but observe others to gain advantage. They always seem to push things to the point of destruction, including self destruction. Because they have no real human relationships, they seek thrills and engagement through high risk behavior which usually escalates. They cannot help themselves. For the vast majority of people the sociopath/psychopath view of the world is incomprehensible because all they want to do is live a decent life and take care of their families. Such psychopaths have been a curse on humanity for centuries. The other curse is peoples need to have a psuedo parent figure 'lead' them, rather than think independently and take charge of their own lives. Unfortunately, now the psychopaths have control of the nuclear button. Don't think for a minute that they would not try to destroy the entire planet if they thought they were going down. (Think Hitler and his statement during the final days of the 3rd Reich that the German people weren't worthy or strong enough and deserved to be destoyed for 'their failure'.)
Really, does it matter who is in charge of the banks?
Yes.
And you could talk about "who" it was were it any other group.
Not only is this wildly disproportionate power, it is a power protected by a logically absurd, knee jerk smear which reduces to "it is hate to mention how much power jews have over and relative to other groups"
When a tiny minority has an excess of power, that means the majority and other minorities, have less power than they should. As to news media, it means a warped understanding of the outside world.
You also falsely equate "Jews" with religions here. It is an ethno-cultural group primarily. Atheist Jew isn't an oxymoron, Atheist Catholic is. Catholics who stopped believing in God don't keep going to Church.
Contingent aspect of history? Huh? This has been the case since before the battle of Hastings. Guess who, in part, funded William the Conquerer? William of Orange? Cromwell?
Not only is Hollywood largely and practically run by Jews - it has been that way for decades. Since they are small minority, this means a concerted effort to keep it Jewish - a sort of "closed shop" at the top exec levels.
"anti-semite" is used, mostly, to prevent discussion of not just disproportionate Jewish power, but power that has been maintained, as Jewish, as against non-Jews, for extended periods of time.
No "conspiracy" need be summoned, you simply need to look at the incontestible facts of power and be willing to admit them. Positing a conspiracy requires evidence of such... but some things speak for themselves... res ipsa... a small minority doesn't keep control of Hollywood studios, over decades, without a concerted effort to do so.
Jews are an incredibly highly organized group. Within this country, and within France, and across national borders. Cooperation and cohesion to some degree is inevitable, and not per se a bad thing... but the disproportionate wealth and media influence has hijacked the foreign policy of more than a couple governments, and this influence is used to excuse Israel from reprehensible and unequivocal crimes.
I'm staunchly opposed to people lying, or making assumptions, or making conspiratorial claims without evidence, but I'm also opposed to people who, earnestly or not, cry "hate" when discussing power and influence and reasonable inferences made from examples of such power and influence.
It is dishonest, and meant merely to prevent a situation in which a small minority maintains its disproportionate power and wealth - necvessarily at the expense of the rest of us.
It is most concerning when it leads to justifications for ongoing wars, belligerance, and crimes against humanity - items which the US and Israel currently lead the world in on a global scale.
It is people crying anti-semite, to obfuscate discussions of Jewish power beyond their numbers {especially in a democracy - Jews contribute over half of privsate donations to both parties. Thinkk that makes us an honest broker in the middle east? Why do we send Zionist Jews to represent AMERICANS generally??} who show no concern for the crimes of Israel, and the deaths and ethnic cleansing such engender, who ought to be ashamed of themselves.
For clarity and accuracy of conversation, we need to point out that not all Jews are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jews.
Insofar as the political ideology & movement of 'Zionism' seeks a homeland for the Jewish people, most rational & reasonable people/goyim probably don't have an issue with 'Zionism'. Where they DO have an issue -- and a VERY legitimate issue -- is if or when it metastasizes/morphs into something bigger and more ambitious: The (real or alleged) long-term goal of world domination, through leveraged control of Central Banking around the globe. The other issue with Zionism that many people have, is that it still behaves as something very close to Apartheid towards the Palestinians -- who are, in fact, an "Indigenous People". Whatever claims of "right of belonging" many modern Jews make to the real estate in Palestine, is rather watered down in terms of conventional property rights and lineage that is difficult to prove -- and impossible to prove in many cases, if we include the fact that many 'Jews' were converts from other regions of the world. I'd argue that if you can't prove your property rights for the last 100 years, you're pretty much out of luck, and Squatters Rights prevail.
But we digress. Let's get back to the main topic, shall we?
Quote: "Games ended" - Vladimir Putin.
>>Syria
they haven't given up yet. haven't you noticed the big up tic in "save the syrian people" propaganda in the U.S. MSM this past week? Pretty soon they are going to roll out colin powell with pictures of a hot air ballon truck and tell us that Assad is going to use WMD to kill babies in incubators.
Do you practice being a twit or does it come naturally?
Free your mind and it will become more obvious how the game is played...
stfu & get back to your state dept job, flak.
I'll rattle my zipper when I think I'll want your opinion....
I believe the saying is "If I want any lip from you I will rattle my zipper" Not if I want your opinion. You just made a fool of yourself.
Hardly...
You just haven't figured it out...
<rattle>
While Obama purges our military, reduces our nuclear weapons and fires our top Generals.
I thought Obama was pro-war.
WTF?
Yeah, Pro-war and anti-American.
Obama has made clear he will aggressively pursue anyone who defies his agenda
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/58845#.Uw-Mqpwu9j4
you forgot pro-sodomy
Don't you mean "Pro-War against America?"
Hell yeah, I am all for being blown by the little lady without worrying about the police busting down the door....
You do understand what sodomy means, do you?
Shuts down our last lead smelting plant and gets rid of the A10. Setting us up to lose?
.....Perhaps Bath House is a Russian Agent, and he plans to turn everything over to Vladimir.....
Russia wins and we all get copies of Rosetta Stone/Russian Language, hahaha.
In fact, I bet it's hidden in the 65,000 page ACA!
I wholeheartedly agree that Obama, as Bush before him, is scum of the earth and sucks donkey dick.
However, firing "top Generals" is a fan-fucking-tastic idea. Most people are ignorant about force structure and are not even remotely aware of how top-heavy the Army really is.
Most people do not understand the cost for the taxpayer to have all these General Officers. The savings from an elimination of 20% of the General officer slots would be eye-popping.
These Generals generate a truly gargantuan expense (each) and are an enormous drag on the Army's efficiency. Each General Officer needs a "Command", and this promotes the creation of all the phantom "commands" currently found in the US Army. These "commands" and all their subordinate (and redundant), stovepipe organizations eat up an enormous amount of taxpayer $$$ and resources.
I am certain beyond doubt, that the Army (alone) can eliminate 20-25% of the General officers, the "commands" they lead, and their subordinate organizations, without losing any ability to project power, perform their war-fighting function, and provide for the troops.
I could elaborate, but I am trying to keep it succint. I have not even mentioned the other branches of service.
To finish, let me just say that these redundant positions and organizations do not add value to the force and cannot survive even the most cursory cost-benefit analysis.
Am seriously looking forward to what Banzi will paint on the side of that hulk
Tanks and guns are so 20th century.
Drone 'em.
Better yet, Bernank em!
The cuban story is very suspicious, it is likely propaganda planted to make Russia look more evil and threatening,,, they may be evil but this is psychological warfare..
two problems,,
First, the pictures of the ship in Cuba are fake or very old, not current
this is the ship on Jan 31 2014… note the rusty anchor and black marks on side… NOT on current pics..
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1967962
Second, the Russian ship was there in 2012, so it isn’t anything new..
Ship in 2012… in Cuba
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1654711
1 month ago,,,
http://www.kkcuracao.com/?p=50180
i am supsicious too. afterall, isnt that ferris bueller in the bottom photograph? looks pretty old
Cuba is home to thousands of old cars from the 50s which is when El Presidente took over and importation stopped
Man, it's tough doing humor on this site.
Easy-E is on to something. Look at the slurred water pixellation to the bay side of the ship, and the straightness of the shoreline behind them, and photographic excellence but subtle lighting difference betweeen Cuba and the ship, and the fact that Ferris Beuller and his awesome ride looks like it was p-shopped straight out of a Bulgarian travelogue.
Nice photoshop in the ship pic
The engine cooling outlet is stirring up the water on the starboard side. What seems strange is the passengers in the car. None of them are looking at the ship. Come on - you don't see something like that every day, especially in Cuba.
Are you Cuban?
Who isn't these days?
Plus the two flags on the ship (jackstaff and main halyard hoist) both show the wind is blowing the ship toward the jetty.
But both the bowlines are taut as would be expected to occur if the ship was being BLOWN OFF the jetty by the wind.
But then in this day and age we can expect lots of wind and happy endings for the chosen few.
The AFP is a propaganda organ of the state????
<= This is my shocked face.
or the current image was enhanced to make mother Russia look more imposing/powerful. A rusty bucket does not look as intimidating.
This sounds like a mystery for encyclopedia brown. Google earth anyone?
Where are dad's balls?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1nWec8uV54
and the solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEhl-ZMgaec
rust bucket laughingstock
- Project # 864/Vishnya Class intelligence ship, tactical# SSV-175, Name:"Viktor Leonov", Launched: 1988, Northen Fleet of Russian Federation.
vs. closest/youngest equivalent
- USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) is a Blue Ridge class, Launched: 1970, 6th Fleet flagship.
What exactly are you laughing at?;-)
That to find an equivalent to that ship in our navy one must chase down a 1970 launch.
Yeah, you're funny ;-))) And that tech marvel by pure luck is a flagship of 6th fleet;-)))
Currently in Black sea:
"USS Mt. Whitney"
http://turkishnavy.net/2014/02/25/uss-mount-whitney-in-istanbul/
FF(G)-50 USSTaylor. Launched 1983
http://turkishnavy.net/2014/02/21/update-on-uss-taylor/
"That to find an equivalent to that ship in our navy one must chase down a 1970 launch."
Are you talking about the American garbage truck B-52 that Russian missiles shot down like ripe apples in Vietnam?
By the way, how about the newest American tanks Abrams, vs the old Soviet RPG-7, 60s? LOL
"rust bucket laughingstock" - Are you talking about the American garbage truck B-52, that Russian missiles shot down, like ripe apples in Vietnam?
Look we all know you are Russian, but try not to make so obvious...
You simply appear to be flag waving apparatchik....
So why don't you roll yourself a nice grifka, pour yourself a Stoli and relax...
"Look we all know you are Russian, but try not to make so obvious..."
If you want to talk about Russia and ruskih, to begin with, you should try to understand and remember the main pillars: Russian - is not a nationality. Russian - a state of mind. I am - Ukrainian.
Yea, doesn't look right. Incidentally, don't they have hull paint in Russia? That thing looks gross.
this is the other picture circulating the media from AFP as current,, old or fake
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/slideshow/ALeqM5jFHPSwhIFocyOhfj-zp...
It could also be Russian propaganda- perhaps they think that the average American sheeple is too dumb or MSM indoctrinated to figure out there are serious potential consequences to what's going on in Ukraine. "Cuba" sends a message that perhaps even a degenerate Boobus Americanus might remember from their indoctrination days, and if not- there's a large well-aged flock of geezers in Florida who remember what it was like the last time around, regardless of where in the country they were living at the time.
maybe, but it came from AFP aka France state propaganda
Maybe No pictures are availabe because this is a private statement to the US govt. Step in what is about to happen in Ukraine and the war will come to the states. We have no idea what is on that thing or came with it under the sea. I think its some kind of deterrent real or bluff. Who here thinks Putin spends much time bluffing?
no evidence, but some food for thought-
If the Russians wanted to send a private message, all they had to do was send in an SSBN un-escorted, we'd never know, but the State most certainly would.
If the Russians simply wanted to sneak an SSBN into Cuba, they could have done so in the wake of a commercial vessel, and there would be no news to report.
As it stands, the Russians "appear" to have moved a relatively non-strategic surface naval asset, as well as potentially unknown submarine asset(s) into Cuba.
There is also the atypical "pre-announcement" about future foreign bases where there have been no contracts signed yet, and where following up with an official call lends credence to the otherwise laughable "pre-announcement"...
Looking at Google earth, I can't find those water/gas/towers
But I did find this:
http://voxxi.com/2014/02/27/russian-warship-cuba/
those tanks are in Curaçao
https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=willemstad+oil+tanks&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=12.2...
http://www.kkcuracao.com/?p=50180
another odd/old pic
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/02/27/cold-war-redux-russian-...
Nice work...
What is it? Tyler can't spot fake shit or that he does and throws it out as red meat for the hedgetards? The clicks must flow!
Perhaps the Russians are lying sacks of shit as well....
Maskirovka is a very old Russian game, they ain't called Potemkin villages for nothing...
I'd like to see Russia install some nuclear weapons (with delivery systems) in Cuba.
The screams & yells from the USA would be pathetic but joyful to hear.
I mean -fairs fair ! If its OK for USA to plant Missiles in Pooland which they tried to do or plant them on Russia's border in the Ukraine as they're wanting to do then why not?
What do you guys all think :)
I'd settle for an "Iron Dome" in Cuba. Purely defensive -- just like NATO's in the EU and Israel's at home.
You do that, and you'd get the real Administration and TPTB to rear their heads.
Isn't that a confederate flag on the foremast?
STaCK oN
BARRY.....
YOU ARE NOT NUMBER 8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA-6oC73Z5U
Come on just EMP us already....
Looks like both sides are collecting firewood for an upcoming fire here. Wonder how quickly this will escalate and when the draft will be put back in place to stop the spread of Communism. I guess the terrorist booygeyman isn't working anymore.
Which nations are the Communists again?
Over the last two decades, I lost track.
We have always been at war with East Asia; Al CIAduh has always been our ally. Do you need to go to room 101 for re-education?
We are now. We need Liberating.
Looks like Putin is coming to 'rescue' America from communism
Come on! Bring it on!
fuck yeah
hope this shit goes down this weekend
i can use another shock and awe campaign, afterall life has become an endless nightmare of pay checks and bills. wake up, eat shit work sleep repeat. liberate us!
Why this weekend? It's really not a good time for me can we reschedule?
lmfao
on a side note, arnt those russian ships near cuba more of an intellegence gathering type of vessels? are they offensive capable?
If the ship's cook has a meat cleaver then it's an offensive weapon.
They hate us for our salad shredders.
Probably to co-ordinate the Iran vessels off the coast..
Or provide guidance for a payload to about 50-150 miles over the eastern Seaboard...
....which have those container-type missiles armed with EMP bombs.
"i can use another shock and awe campaign, afterall life has become an endless nightmare of pay checks and bills. wake up, eat shit work sleep repeat. liberate us!"
Comma's ......... eat, shit,...... LOL.
I agree with you completely though. Sick of seeing this sycophants walk around like men of honor, someone needs to pimp hand them pronto.
After you are liberated I think you will find that "life has become an endless nightmare of pay checks and bills." Again! Liberate yourself and be free instead.
Vlad needs to hand Bath House his head and crap down his throat, after a big skullfucking session.
Kohn would be tied up in the same room, in a rubber suit with a ball in his mouth. Vlad tells him he's next. Kohn's eyes are glued open and a dwarf is waterboarding him with Ketchup.
Then we put RP in by popular acclamation.
That's my fantasy and I'm sticking to it.
Agreed. Shit needs to go down. Tired of all the permanent slave camps jobs running 24/7. We need some fucking anarchy.
GG, we miss you. You need to post more often.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
Vlad and Barrys' Excellent Adventure.
Maybe now we can go for regime change in Syria.
Dennis Gartman BULLISH on GOLD http://dennisgartman.blogspot.com/2014/02/gold-its-time-to-be-bullish.ht...
Time to SELL
I wish Fartman would keep his thoughts off of gold.
Everything that fat fuck touches turns to shit.
I get the feeling that the Russians are taking this seriously.
RiaNovosti reports defense minister Sergei Shoigu saying Russia plans "to expand permanent military presence outside its borders by placing military bases in a number of foreign countries," including Vietnam, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, the Seychelles, and Singapore. "The talks are under way, and we are close to signing the relevant documents," Shoigu told reporters in Moscow.
Great opportunity to annex all of Ukraine into Russia. Why stop at half, NATO has no plans... Bases on foriegn soil cost big money, thats why the US is broke.
Winston, you're needed in Room 101.
Doubleplus ungood crimethink, nephew.
Winston, it's a simple case of economics my boy. You take the third of the country that's worth having. That's the southern and eastern portion. You leave the debts and rest of the Ukraine to the EU. You get the ports, the factories, and some of the crop land. Of course this will be a separate country, you don't want to actually take full responsibility for it, just control it. (Think Obama and heath insurance)
Meanwhile, there might be a naval base in Syria coming on the market soon.
Without getting into too much speculation or amateur-hour Game Theory forecasting, I'll wager that the two book-ends of possible scenarios are the Rock & Hard-place that the US is trying to put Russia into:
1. Do nothing significant and let the NATO Boa Constrictor keep squeezing.
2. Provoke Russia into regional war, which is FANTASTIC for the USD and USTs. Note that UST sales have not been the best and it doesn't help if the Chinese don't buy new ones and the EU (Belgium/Brussels) has to step in with bits of promises being exchanged with the Fed.
Between these two extremes, I'll wager, is where the real music will play. Russia will seek to increase what is technically called (in math) the "solution space", i.e. create many viable options, while the US/NATO will try to impose the opposite on them.
Given their proximity, etc, the Russians are better positioned to "turn the table" in the game of Revolutions, by turning central and western Ukraine into an unmanageable mess of bickering and fighting factions (leftists, centrists, rightists). At the same time, using a Referendum (Plebiscite) in eastern Ukraine and Crimea, they can get the political mandate to use the military to secure peace and protect their interests and those of the populace. And then there would be "fuck all" that the US/NATO could do, except have a hissy fit.
But if I were the Russians, I'd play both the Principle and Procedure game (court-room terms), to get the entire Ukrainian coast... thus preventing an end-run of oil+gas deliveries that avoid Gazprom pipelines to Ukraine and the EU.
"When you try me with a sorry president like BHO, that's the results you gonna get!"
So THAT'S where my stolen '57 Caddy Convertible ended up - freekin' Havana!
NuYawk, that's a '57 Olds, not a Caddy
Dammit - those scumbgs even switched the chassis!!!
Yep,,, Olds Super 88
Its a ROCKET 88 and Cuba isn't supposed to have any of those!
It's a photoshopped pic too.
Cuba is a sovereign nation. Free to host a single Russian spy ship, or many more.
NATO just reminded us all that sovereignty of nations is to be respected in all regards!
Now then, do you think Ivan might also have a sub or two in the vicinity?
Johnny, you need to read up on the Monroe Doctrin established in 1823
Monroe Doctrine in the process of being updated to the new Putin Doctrine.
He did, but disguarded it because it was written by....
JUUUS!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Cry-wolf.png
Cookie?
American Exceptionalism: International law applies to everyone EXCEPT US!
"American Exceptionalism: International law applies to everyone EXCEPT US!"
I'm sorry, but Russian missiles are not familiar with international law and the divine American exceptionalism.
My thought also.
The Russians navy does it their way, sneak in a boomer or two, in a spy ships noisy
wake.
1980 called, they said you were supposed to be back from your fantasy trip by now
Exactly right its not 1980 anymore. Now Death can be tiny. Whats on the ship? Biologics? Chems? Nukes? Pen?
Dont laugh at the pen. Thats what the bankers used to bring the world to its knees. Dangerous things can be very small now. And its on our doorstep......
Very true. Modern bioligic weapons are even able to be race specific.
However, according to Janes , the Russian northers fleet still has five operational
boomers.One would be more than enought to settle an argument.
The fact the Russians concentrate on defensive weaposa tells us a lot about them,
and even more about the US.
It would make sense for them to use the spy ship as screen and eyes. At least one boomer below and couple attack subs. At least that much and who knows what else. I find the lack of concern by most to be very disturbing. These are the Russians and they are not joking and they are not fools.
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The biggest threat to the American people is Vichy DC, not Moscow.
I lack the concern for Russia because an even more dangerous problem exists: Our leaders and the bankers/corporations that fuck us all over. A Zerohedge user (forgot the name) awhile ago suggested that even though these bastards screwed us over, they are still our bastards so we should defend them.
No fucking way.
If there's a shit ton of SLBM-capable subs off our coast it's because 'our' bastards caused this to happen through their king-making, meddling, and empire building. Many signs point towards a totalitarian-themed America that (insert your favorite dictator here) would masturbate to on a daily basis. We've got compliant consumer whore zombie citizens, a spy apparatus both run by government and corporation seconded by none, a plethora of "happy-friendship" FEMA camps ready to either brainwash or slaughter us, and an MIC foaming at the mouth at the promise of a world war. Too many "plugged in" people that I talk to think the U.S. are the good guys in all of this -especially Syria, and we can do no wrong.
The U.S. isn't joking either, and it has made it clear that you can have any democratically elected leader you want so long as it's one of our guys. As far as I'm concerned this type of response from the likes of Russia and China is long overdue. I don't mean to come off as supporting Russia or China, because either way you slice it they're manipulative fucks just like the ones running our country and the E.U., but like a whale biologist I will calls it like I sees it.
When the SHTF I'm siding with the people (Option: C), and as far as I'm concerned neither side has our best interests in mind, so fuck em both.
/endrant.
dupe
And its on like Donkey Kong.
I thinks Putin went all in on this one.
Nows thats a line in the sand.