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Russian Fighter Jet Flies Repeatedly Within 1000 Yards Of US Warship In The Black Sea
As we reported last Friday, a second US warship, the destroyer Donald Cook, crossed the Bosphorus last week and entered the Black Sea at precisely the time when NATO was arguing that its encroaching presence around Russia should not spook anyone. Apparently it spooked someone, namely Russia, which over the weekend decided to give the Americans a warm welcome. As AP reports, "A U.S. military official says a Russian fighter jet made multiple, close-range passes near an American warship in the Black Sea for more than 90 minutes Saturday amid escalating tensions in the region."
The official says the fighter flew within 1,000 yards of the USS Donald Cook, a Navy destroyer, at about 500 feet above sea level, saying this prompted ship commanders to issue several radio warnings. The fighter appeared to be unarmed and the passes ended without incident.
In the first public account of the incident, the official said the Russian Fencer flew within 1,000 yards of the USS Donald Cook, a Navy destroyer, at about 500 feet above sea level. Ship commanders considered the actions provocative and inconsistent with international agreements, prompting the ship to issue several radio queries and warnings.
The fighter appeared to be unarmed and never was in danger of coming in contact with the ship, said the official, who was not authorized to talk publicly by name about the encounter so spoke on condition of anonymity. The passes, which occurred in the early evening there, ended without incident.
The official also said that a Russian Navy ship, a frigate, has been shadowing the U.S. warship, remaining within visual distance but not close enough to be unsafe.
The USS Donald Cook has been conducting routine operations in international waters east of Romania. The ship, which carries helicopters, was deployed to the Black Sea on April 10, in the wake of the Russian military takeover of Ukraine's Crimea region and ongoing unrest there.
It is unclear if Russia was simply marking what is clearly considers its own expanded territorial waters, or if the Su-24 pilots were just being friendly.
Curious where the ship is now? It is currently at anchor in the Romanian port of Constanca where it welcomed the country's president Basescu:
The forward deployed guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) welcomed aboard Romanian President Traian B?sescu while the ship was in port in Constanta, April 14.
President B?sescu was met by members of the U.S. Embassy and Donald Cook’s commanding officer Cmdr. Scott Jones. He was then given a tour of the ship, including the Navigation Bridge, Combat Information Center and Engineering Control.
Donald Cook, the first of four Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to be forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is serving on a scheduled patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations as part of the President's European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) to ballistic missile defense in Europe.
U.S. 6th Fleet, headquartered in Naples, Italy, conducts a full range of maritime security operations and theater security cooperation missions in concert with coalition, joint, interagency, and other parties in order to advance security and stability in Europe and Africa.
And to confirm that military overflights are hardly an isolated event around the Ukraine, moments ago photos were taken of a military helicopter flying over downtown Donestk in the east Ukraine, which as is widely known, is largely in the hands of "pro Russian separatists."
Military helicopter that just flew over downtown Donetsk. #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/ylpblgtxT2
— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) April 14, 2014
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Speaking as an ex-CT, I assure you that not all frequencies used for fire control are equal.
Payne: "This was normal back in the 70s and 80s. Baiting the bull."
Back in the old cold war days we'd run NATO exercises in the North Sea and various USSR bombers were always over head. There were also 'fishing boats' loaded with antennas trailing close to us. Never once did we ever see anyone fishing off them. And, of course, they had their subs out there too.
The North Sea felt pretty crowded.
Don't pick a fight with a big bad ass gang in their own territory. Russia holding all the cards. Let it go. We have no compelling interest and the E. Ukrainians will think Putin will pay their pensions and give them entitlements. They are soooo wrong. Let Putin have all the liabilities.
Sent from my EyeEyePhone:
http://rt.com/news/pentagon-destroyer-russian-jet-428/
Did that pilot resemble Clint Eastwood?
Obama goes on a golfing trip in 3...2...1...
Putin has the strategic advantage, tell the Ukrainian PM to back off or he will disappear into the night.
And this is news, why?
You people apparently don't remember the kamikaze Chinese MiG pilot back in 2001 who rammed a U.S. electronic surveillance plane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident
You modern pussies would wet your pants at the provocations during the Cold War.
They're still pissed at Maverick and Goose.
Poor Goose. He will be avenged!
How about this version of Top Gun has a non-gay actor in it? Basically, no Tom Cruise.
Tarrentino breaks down Top Gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyN8VN4BSzM
For a flat-spin induced by flying through jet wash? What have you got in mind? :D
Goose dies because the canopy did not seperate cleanly and he struck it during ejection. He ejected because Maverick stalled both engines on the F-14 while engaged in a low altitude BFM maneuvers during a training mission.
So... lets not blame Putin or the long suffering Russian people.
sure seems like shit's about to get real.
Just estimating if the need one or two firecracker to sink that Duck.
Putin, you're an asshole and you're welcome. The US paid $1 billion in overdue gas bills and Putin triples his salary. Medvedev gets more as well. Putin is a pimp ass motherfucker cheap dirty mobster. They'd clean the stalls with his kind in Brooklyn.
As Mel Gibson would've said: helloooo Jewey ;)
Which time of Brooklyn history are you talking about?
Old timey Brooklyn? 'On the dole' Brooklyn? Or hipster "my parents don't understand me and everything is overpriced so they send a check, we live 6 friends in an apartment" Brooklyn?
The Welcome Back Kotter type.
This time Freddy is in the White House. Horshack is the VP.
I literally lol - so true!
who do you think is running shit in Brooklyn?
the Hasids ?
there's always more to the story
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/nyregion/major-mafia-round-up-in-new-y...
Italians in Bensonhurst ? in this day and age ? I thought they all moved to SI or (gasp) JERsey
yeah well, like I said ... it doesn't always add up. The families have owned Brooklyn for decades and expanded from there. Brooklyin is convenient.
All kidding aside, there are a ton of Russian gangsters in Brooklyn as well. Only they don't get caught....or the police are afraid. Either way.
Don't rag on the poor hipsters, most have thriving careers as artisan picklers and beard models.
Hmmm - is that the same Brooklyn in NYC where they let the politicians get away with making it illegal for most citizens to have the ability to defend themselves ?
Putinis punking Obama over and over again. Putin can take down the U.S. without a shot being fired by dropping the dollar completely in oil trade. Putin has the control. Putin has shown who is a real leader. Obama is the one who is the the stalls. Who the asshole is, will be shown in the not too distant future and it is not Putin!
Putin is SO HOT. Oh go fuck yourself. Give me a pale. I'm gonna vomit all over your shoes.
I'm guessing English isn't any of your languages.
Putinis....it is Latin.
Here are some other choices:
Putinae, Putinem, Putinate, Putinant, Putinet (French wine ?)
He differs from Harry Reid how?
Reid's a cunt. How does that have anything to do with the puke Putin?
You may be right but at least his nickname isn't "bath house."
Hey, the guy is constantly showing himself barechested in public. Who knows what he's into. A Russian female royalty was into stallions. So who gives a fuck. Putin is pissing me off and someone needs to send in the cleaners. He is way past his expiry date.
He's pissing you off and you want someone else to do something about it? Quite a petulant child, aren't you?
Senator McCain, I didn't know you commented on ZeroHedge?
"Putin is a pimp ass motherfucker cheap dirty mobster. They'd clean the stalls with his kind in Brooklyn."
This is how I imagine Brooklyn mobsters/pimps talk.
You're posting from Brighton Beach then?
figures...
BWWIII - stocks loving this news.
In that millisecond before I'm engulfed by a nuclear fireball only one thought will cross my mind - bullish!
Given the speed of HFT you will likely to have an opportunity to execute a bunch of trades in that millisecond. Plus you get to save a lot on your retirement expenses. It's all good.
Not to mention your Tax savings.
I think we are in the Danger Zone now.
From the movie Top Gun where Hollywood portrays the Ruskies as the bad guys once again.
Excuse me, Lieutenant. Is there something wrong?
Yes ma'am, the data on the MiG is inaccurate.
How's that, Lieutenant?
Well, I just happened to see a MiG 28 do a...do a 4g negative dive.
Where did you see this?
Uh, that's classified.
It's what?
It's classified. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
OK...the ship was in International Waters and the aircraft was also...so what is the problem...
"..The aircraft appeared to be unarmed..." kind of difficult to tell if it was or was not...
Sure got all the info on the latest USN fire control radars.
Priceless.
Those are OUR international waters, or something.
It isn't that large an area. If you're travelling at 1000 KMPH from Sebastopol then you might cross the Black Sea in 20 minutes.
The plane was probably doing take-off and landing runs from Sebastopol. Just imagine they have 10 destroyers (5 Russian, and 5 non-BlackSea) and 10 planes in the air over the Black Sea.
Want a 50 mile radius buffer zone ? Then throw in automatic defense systems. Its like a Pachinko machine out on the Black Sea...and everyone is hot and lit up. 5 minute reaction time...tops ?
Way too crowded.
Listen Obomo, a very good point of advise: Russians don't play Poker, so they don't bluff...They play fucking Russian roulette, so BACK OFF or this thing will go waaaaay over your Z payrole buddy.
Did the ragheads realize declaring war on Christians invloves Russia??
Guessing no.
You must give it to 'americans': they can shield from reality.
.
Like ferrite beads in that respect.
You know, from the middle ages on through the Renaissance and even into fairly recent history, the Church and its allies kept trying to push an agenda of internal peace and external warfare, preaching that the princes of Europe should band together to make war on the Muslims (think: everything from the crusades to the Barbary pirate wars) and, domestically, reap the rewards of peace. The US and Russia are pretty much the only ones still going on the anti-Muslim expeditions (the Russians cherish the Chechens and Afghanis with about as much cheek-turning brotherly love as the Americans do everyone in MENA). Oddly, the Americans and the Russians also hate each other. I guess that whole "common enemy" idea that the Church was pushing was never really going to work out.
Your smart, explain that whole Muslims taking Spain and the Balkans.. Was that their territory or was someone killed when they took that off the "Wests" hands? Was the church pushing that meme as well?
Russia should pack an old cargo jet full of gasoline and remote fly it dangerously close to the US ship. Why? I don't know. I'm kinda drunk and I have down's syndrome.
That knock at the door is someone from the State Department; they're going to offer you an Ambassadorship to Turkey.
Those are the exact qualifications Americans are looking for in their next Commander in Chief.
There's a Boeing 777 kicking around somewhere they could use. They'd probably need to chat to the CIA first about loaning it though...
Everyone understands the cat and mouse game militaries play with each other. But 1,000 yards? How close do they get to fly before the USN knocks one out of the air? Oh boy. Somebody is bound to do something really, really stupid if this keeps up. Remember: the Black Sea is not a lake; it's international waters. If the USN gets inside Russian waters then Ivan has every right to go ape and attack. But in international waters it's a different story. I think it was a pilot following orders from someone not at the very top. Putin and his top generals are smarter than this.
Foreign ships in the Black Sea are governed by the Montreaux Convention. They can only stay a short time. U.S. may be in violation of that soon, and in violation of international law.
No more than nine non-Black Sea state warships, with a total aggregate tonnage of no more than 30,000 tons, may pass at any one time through the Bosporus Straits and the Dardanelles, and they are permitted to stay in the Black Sea for no longer than twenty-one days. Can you imagine if the USN put 9 ships in the Black Sea at all times just to push things? Jeez. Both sides need to be thinking with a cool head. All it takes is one pilot or one sea captain to make a big mistake and all hell will break out. In the meantime, Russia just has to live with ships right off Crimea. But we'd have to live with Ivan sailing in international waters right off the Houston port too. In either case ships that close to a foreign port would be dead meat if a war went hot.
You worry too much. This is all for public consumption, in order to give us a boogie man. It helps keep us distracted and the MIC gets it's funding.
And its dangerous for all the reasons given.
Sorry, but I remain skeptical.
Those destroyers are a bit over 7,000 tonnes each, so there's half gone.
As of today there are 5 non-black sea state warships operating in the Black Sea:
USS Truxtun DDG-103 Displacement 9,200 tons
USS Donald Cook DDG-75 Displacement 8,900 tons
FR Dupleix D-641 Displacement 4,500 tons
FR Alize A-645 Displacement 1,600 tons (Supports combat divers)
FR Dupuy de Lome A-759 Displacement 3,100 tons
Total 27,300 tons
Montreax Convention Limit 30,000 tons
http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=496459
http://www.novinite.com/articles/159784/France
Looks like a full replay of 1914. Not sure who gets to play the role of the Archduke.
"Both sides need to be thinking with a cool head."
Roger that, i think Biden will be soon in the ground ... hopefully Kerry as well ... i agree, cool heads will prevail, but most likely this is just a rogue pilot
Is this McCain's Navy ? (yes it sounds like a 60's TV comedy "McHale's Navy")...but...didn't John McCain do a lot of extra-fancy flying in Viet Nam..over many areas ? And got shot down for that, and held captive for years, during difficult times for the US.
Strange shoe on the other foot. I hope no US troops get injured or worse before this is over. Would be nice to get a US plan that hangs together and some strategy...rather than hangin' out a-la-Benghazi and getting shot up and killed.
Sad and dismal.
See Churchill's remark 4657098 above:
"Sure got all the info on the latest USN fire control radars."
da.....by now all the young superprogrammers of Tomsk/Seversk schools at their crt monitors have new lesson assigments.
joke..everybody know not in Russian school....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrxjYfl05ek
Someone in the thread said the cute girl made a mistake. I think she was supposed to remove the magazine first. Pretty impressive.
Ship commander: "This is f*cking stupid, lets pull into port and get some cheap Romanian hookers"
Fleet Admiral: "Whatever you do, do not fire on those MIGs, I dont care how many bullet holes they put in your hull. "
Petty Officer: "The Fleet Admiral says they fired on us! ready the .50 cal!"
Ship Commander: "They're firing on us? ah man, now theres no way we can get those hookers... er uh, return fire!
Beginning of WW3
Petty officer and rogue pilot ... i knew it!
it wont happened until they say it must happened ... then you can have your archiduke killed or whatever ... and some petty officer will take one for the team
Scary conidering the history of Phalanx unintentional discharges.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOll3v55Dmo
The fighter pilot is probably wondering the same as me.
What business has a US warship got being in their neck of the woods.
I'm sure that any Russian destroyers sailing around the U.S shorelines would be welcomed with a lot moar than just a fly by.
How about Russian nuclear subs off our coasts? Domestic propaganda says that we can track and kill them 100% before they have a chance to launch. Maybe yes, maybe no. I guess we'll find out one of these days. What a tragedy if the missiles they have targeted on DC get through. With Congress in full session. With all the lobbyist offices filled. And the entire executive branch and judiciary in town. Full Federal decapitation. What would the rest of the country do without our fearless leaders? We would be lost. Lost, I tell you. Let us pray.
So when do the Russians and Chinese act in concert (not the musical kind)?................
They have already act in concert in economic front.
Russia invading Ukraine.
China invading Nevada (they like to gamble).
Any boat that the U.S. stupidly puts in the Black Sea can be sunk easily.
Boys need to put their toys away.
Back to my Labradoodle story. Sone as the neighbor dogs come to stay. Labroadoodle goes in the back room and brings out the toy and drops it at his feet. as soon as one of the neighbor dogs goes to pick it up to play. Doodle attacks with full force.
Putin got a Doodle.
Per my old man who was in the navy in the 60's/70's on destroyers and carriers, this fly-by game has gone on since forever and is common play out at sea. It's a bit provacative at this time, to be sure, but it is not out of the ordinary.
Captain: I won't shoot first, but if he fires one I'll fire one.
Exhausted fire control officer: Fire one!
Ooops.
The destroyer captain gets upset and fires his missiles, fortunately due to military spending cuts the weaponry was not up to scratch. See video (jump to 1 min mark for the action) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCzWuc_xlg8&feature=player_detailpage
I'll bet the piolot was just having fun. If he wanted to be provocative I think I radar lock would have frayed more nerves...
Yeah, or they could have frayed some nerves by doing something like this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmyq2OJOVDw
Irresponsibility writ large. US out of the world, NOW.
Rothschild, DRock, et al, find other hobbies you jackwagons.
The fighter should have dumped urine over the USS Crook.
Unarmed?.. interesting..
Scramble was missed.
"But 1,000 yards? How close do they get to fly before the USN knocks one out of the air? Oh boy. Somebody is bound to do something really, really stupid if this keeps up."
This does worry me a little bit. I know it doesn't sound close, but 1000 yards is extremely close when dealing with things that fly super fucking fast. The ship's automated defense systems really could interpret the jet at some kind of missile and try to shoot it down. I hope the American and Russian military people talk to each other so this doesn't happen again.
spasibo for that expert analysis...so great to know this!
Our boys wont go to war with Russians. If it came to that, our armed forces would cave in from a morale standpoint. This would be the most outrageous pretext we've ever gotten into a war over.
Double-plus good news for stawks no doubt!
This article is either bullshit or the jets had permission to fly by. Our ships can take out anything within 100 miles with no difficulty.
and russians can take out any ship in black sea, with their missiles based on ground, with no difficulty too. Not sure losing a ship to kill a plane does worth it.
A self-deploying sea mine to break its back would be enough, no need to make a kerfuffle.
If the US is using rotor-wing drones from those ships to recon on Russian naval forces and ground units (and I guarantee you they are, as most Anglo western frigates and destroyers have a light drone these days for that very reason) then the fighter has probably shot one down and paid them a visit to say hello. The whole thing is more dangerous than people realize, especially if Russians are moving across the border.
Chances are the US visits to Kiev are to stage tactical level recon drone flights from there for that very reason. They'll just use the small ones, gear that doesn't matter if they lose a few dozen of them, as many are cheaper than artillery shells, and can yield big results. So we can expect a fair bit of comms jamming the the occasional electro-optical guided ground fire to take them down.
Which just makes the miscalculation potential and tension so much higher. Whether they knock it off from there is not likely because Russia will not just let them do it, like Pakistan did, Russia will actually remove the source of them.
And kiev will without doubt go along with it and encourge it because Kiev is desperate for Western intervention and support at this point. They are just as likely to deliberately create an incident to drag in support.
Why would the Russians take out an American ship when the American's will do their own to reap more Rothschild blood money. It must be tense on that ship knowing your own boys are going to take you out for another bullshit false flag casus belli.
Who said what was stopping them was capability?
KICK HIS ASS SEA BASS!
"hey guys! Whoa, big gulps huh? Alright!"
the warmongering ziocon murdering obama freaks are bound and determined to have a war....if the russians are not drawing up war plans, they are fucked. mccain and brennan have already declared war.
I don’t think the even the fanatics in the State Department and the mainstream media actually want a war, though a few might, mainly in the press. But I do believe they want some equivalent of a new Cold War since the so-called “War on Terror” seems to have run out of steam, though it can always be held in reserve since it is not obvious that the US is now supporting these movements as it has done since the end of WWII. This is all very Machiavellian and is mainly about Washington, not Ukraine. This crisis, along with the farce about Syria last year, is just another bit of maneuvering within Washington power-circles and lobbyists. There’s a lot of money at stake here–where that money goes and to which operation is the key to understanding American foreign policy, particularly during this relatively weak Administration.
you wish Cynthis ... it seems to me you are trying to convince yourself is not happening ... but guess what, it will anyway .... out of our control. it is what it is, dont try the logic and common sense, just analyze the facts ... why do you think there are those greystone folks in ukr?
Heard of John McCain? I have no doubt that psycho will lobby for aggression, it's all he ever does. He's damaged goods, mental qualities of a banana split.
hey stay stay stay hay hay FROSTY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyuXCfKzfko
International waters? Isn't that where they held the Tyson vs. Secretariat fight?
http://tinyurl.com/qbvgkd7
Well, things are starting to heat up again...and you know what that means...it means its time for O to take another much needed vacation...
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I'm sure we woudn't do that to a Russian warship if they showed up in the Gulf of Mexico...
putin is out of control he is insane a mad dog.
the last time the us navy came to my house i welcomed them with flowers.
i gave them all a bud
they then told me to fuck off as they needed some rape time alone with my wife and kids.
later when i came home the house was a terrible mess with human excrement everywhere.
putin needs to be more flexible with the us navy like what i was like.
i never found out why they do what they do but they must have a good reason so leave america alone putin stop being a bully.
You are a very strange unit.
No doubt John McCain's wrinkly old cock just popped up, for once.
Two words: "Soft Kill". It is rumored that six megawatts of radar energy when focused can have deleterius effects on both aircraft and pilot.
"I dunno Cap, we ranged him and he just fell out the sky."
Dude, my wireless router puts off 6 megawatts.
Watch the birdy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LzZ1ORjSjk
The cold war is back. This time with more expensive toys. We needed some reason to throw money at the Military Industrial Complex now that terrorism has been unmasked as a complete friggen fraud. McCain will be eating cracked crab tonight!
Lets see who will win an arms race this time.
The USA will play the part of the USSR, we are already bankrupt, so its EBT
or MIC. Can't do both.
The USA has trillions in 401k and IRA savings accounts to plunder and pillage for the benefit of Obama/Bush/Clinton War Machine.
The progressive statist warmongers will attempt to socialize the accounts in the name of National Security and strip the savers and retirees of any source of financial independence.
We welcome the Russian liberators!
spoke on condition of anonymity.
close-range passes near an American warship in the Black Sea for more than 90 minutes
Let's get real. 90 minutes is a very very long time to play such a game. This is far from believable.
I bet the aliens are probably laughing their asses off and placing bets.
I saw on CNN that aliens do actually have asses but the shit shoots out on top like a fountain. The Japanese were really impressed.
and for a laugh, mostly :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5f7AkQIUQg#aid=P9H6ti97CAQ
(except the last line is what the taxpayers are saying)
Perhaps the Ruskies should be patroling the Gulf of Mexico to "contain US aggession"!
Putin is petrified that our homosexual and transgendered troops will launch a major LGBT Parade in Moscow.....
Neocons in the Obonzo's funhouse want war.
Victoria Nuland, the wife of prominent neocon Robert Kagan and the sister-in-law of the Gates-Petraeus adviser Frederick Kagan, advocated strenuously for Ukraine’s reorientation toward Europe.
Can we trade them Hillary for Sharpova? Why the heck are we in the Black Sea?
DUH!
Because We have a Black president.
+1 for the first answer that makes sense.
Time to rename Tbilisi into Atlanta and we're all set.
All I really wanted was a White Russian.
http://en.ria.ru/military_news/20140414/189218065/Russia-Tests-Fires-Yar...
" Shall we play a game "
In the fun daze of the Cold War the navies were doing this with attack subs...that is much more interesting.
There are more Subs sneaking around that bath-tub than you can imagine.
Laws of physics apply here, the closer molecules are compressed the more exited they become.
That Romanian President Traian Basescu looks like Gary Oldman in Dracula.
But then, guys like him are usually 'vampires' of some sort. It's... in his blood*. [* spoken with a Draculian accent]
Don't hurt Russia - they export hot porn stars with big fucking tits!!!!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhDFWehatqM
that's for you Rising Sun
Who cares! Reality is now irrelevant, thanks to central bankers. We have PRINTED prosperity now!
It's like a repeat of G.W. on the aircraft carrier with the banner behind him reading "Mission Accomplished"...
Only this time it's President Remus in the same flight suit wearing a very large pair of Depends on the outside!
Hope those U.S. Navy trolls on the Cook are doing some major "YB"'s....
Assholes deserve everything they will get if they start this one as will the rest of America for letting it get this bad!!!!
Seeing video of US drone in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, spying on pro-Russian Ukrainians.
Appears US now involved in military action in Ukraine. A monumental F-Up if true.
To be honest, I'm suprised we didn't send the USS Enterprise over there. It is being decommisioned, and would be perfect for the false flag... errr I mean peaceful patrols in the Black Sea.
Good thing you mentioned that as that idea already slipped out. Oops!!!....
But don't worry if the the U.S. Government could use innocent men and women to slaughter on 9/11 as a means of protecting their vital "strategic interest" perhaps the Cook is the alternate for the Enterprise as bate?
Sure hope the Captain of the Cook has considered that one as a real possibility? I'm sure there are many in the U.S. military who know the truth after 20 years of doing the bidding for Wall Street as they continue to look the other way!!!
according to existing treaties USS Enterprise tonnage is too big to be allowed into the Black Sea
If it entered it would be a demonstration that international law does not exist anymore
You're absolutely right.
But how has that stopped us in violating every other post-Cold War treaty with Russia the U.S. was committed to, including staging a coup and overthrow of a legitimate neighboring government during the hosting of their own Winter Olympics?...
Not a bad idea, really. We could cram the flight deck with babies in incubators, and put Tupperware containers of Sarin under each tiny newborn.
Spray paint "Chemical Weapons Lab" and/or "Rape Room" on some old Econoline vans and have them on deck as well.
Then sail it within 500 yards of Sevastopol and see what happens.
Well said RMFMJ
Be careful though. Because those kinds of ideas would probably get used by the boyz and girlz at Langley.
Didn't you know the Leprachaun Satan at the helm would just loves those new innovative ideas for death and torture to start something -at this point ANYTHING!...
Lest I forget the real reason Brennan is making haste in lighting it up!