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NATO Scrambles F-16 Jets Over Lithuania After Russian Warplanes Allegedly Enter Airspace
The Ukraine conflict continues to simmer, with the conclusive presidential election perceived as a positive even as the fighting in the eastern part of the nation intensifies, but it is NATO member Lithuania where today's action was, where according to the Lithuanian Defense Ministry, NATO sent two fighter jets from Estonia after Lithuania said Russian vessel disturbed civilian shipping in Baltic Sea, and two Russian warplanes flew over Lithuanian airspace.
According to Bloomberg citing the Lithuanian press release, a Lithuanian warship and helicopter also deployed.
Russian corvette in Lithuanian waters yesterday diverted civilian ships during missile exercises.
“It is unsettling that currently Russia has been holding military exercises that penetrate into Lithuania’s exclusive economic zone with their safety zones:” Defense Minister Juozas Olekas.
Two F-16 fighters sent from Estonia air base after 2 Russian SU-24s and 1 SU-27 warplane flew into Lithuania airspace.
This too is bullish for stocks: worst case scenario the ECB has to print a few more fighter jets. As for Russian de-escalation and not testing NATO resolve, that particular theory may need some reworking.
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Party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This shit went on for decades with Russia during the Cold War.
How many times were Soviet Bear bombers on their way to Cuba intercepted off the U.S. east coast?
Which reminds me... Watch the Russians start stirring up shit in Cuba again soon!
dem fuckers better not bomb perl harbor again...will be awaiten for em dis time....
What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Over Mucho Grande?
List of U.S. aircraft shot down during the Cold War:
http://www.silent-warriors.com/shootdown_list.html
Who let the party go.......on!
things are getting hot
wonder how much longer before the fur flies
I wonder how much longer before Obama's ears fall off from Putty biatch slapping him.
War bitchez
I'm pretty certain Latka would do a better job running the USA that the idiots we have now.
Latka/Ignatowski 2016!
OT but QE5 was just announced specifically targeting the long suffering San Fran housing market.
http://gma.yahoo.com/millionaire-hiding-envelopes-cash-around-san-franci...
Take that! Obama you asshole.
If those Russkies can make a car float, AND divert civilian ships, then your toast!
if the russians really want to help us out, find O bummer's real Birth Cert.
They would release it except it shows he was born in Cuba of loyal Communist Party parents...
So he's really the "Havana Candidate"
But...but...we spent the last two decades mastering the IED.
not scared. the usa has the ultimate weapon, the money bomb. with the push of a button they can blow up the currency. muah ah ah!
Imagine If Russia Had Toppled The Canadian Government:
http://rt.com/op-edge/160168-imagine-russia-us-double-standards/
No need to do anything to Canada, the ConLib governments have been selling the colony down the river for over a century now...... too bad they got roped into the war tribe again the were actually on a good roll there for a while........ heck they were even starting to pay down thier debt at one point ....... now not so much
Edit - but point taken
Man F-16 against the Russian SU jets is that even fair? They have bad ass planes and nato and US still with these old F16
Sure dipshit they haven't upgraded anything since the F16 was designed,stupid fuck.
7 down arrows is all you stupid fucks can manage,better hope that the SHTF never happens or you will all be my little bitches.
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Well we know who loves to suck Russian cock.
The down arrows must be coming from the stupid fucks in Europe,your countries are about to be destroyed for the third time in a 100 years.HAHAHHHA stupid fucks.
God forbid you actually do any reading
You would find THEY ARE ALL THE SAME AGE.
The SU24 Fencer has zero chance against an F16. It's a lite strategic bomber copy of the F111. It lacks maneuverability bs it's ECM is all it has.
Which is why it has a fighter escort.
One fighter, which would be the match of an F16. But there are two.
With superior avionics, weapons, communications, and counter measure.
This would have been a joke.
I wish people like you from The Blaze and Infowars had never found our little island of reason in an ocean of retardation. Please go back to those sites where stupid comments are tolerated fucktard.
..... for starters let me say I hold no bias either way but during the "Wag the Dog" Kosovo incursion by NAZTO the dutch air force took out one of three mig 29s that had been scrambled from near Belgrade to intercept a NAZI strike package - thier words - the remaining migs presumably went to ground to avoid the AWACs but one of the two was presumably taken out by a pair of F-15 eagles in the area. Now to be fair that was a while ago and like the US I'm sure the best of the best Russian avionics and countermeasures is not sold to every customer the thing to remember is the brains of the missle is the story few air engagements are even carried out within visual range these days - and this whole concept of missle wolf packs is a bit frightening on the whole ......
Right, the BVR, Beyond Visual Range, missiles is where the Russians tend to lead.
The Su-27 is just a bit newer than the rest of 'em.
Gold spasming down again at 0820. So, let me guess, these guys got the 0830 economic data 10 mins early, perhaps? I know that gold has been going down all morning, but it just went into overdrive.
Silver and gold being smashed with unusual ferocity - so everything is A-OK in the land of the free (markets).
JustObserving: "Silver and gold being smashed with unusual ferocity - so everything is A-OK in the land of the free (markets)."
And isn't it amazing ? Your clueless neighbors probably did a lot of flag waving this weekend and thinking, "America - land of the free"
Dumb bastards. They don't even know that bankster criminals took over the country a looonnnngg time ago.
And they have no idea what's coming.
Putin takes position in the markets with his billions.
Russian launches planes.
Putin waits for market move.
Putin clears position.
Putin gets on the air and spews some hate.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Since our commandeer and chef obozo insisted on taking over ukraine in a move absent of any honor and dignity, by all means putin, fly those craft over nato protected airspace!
Gulf of Tonkin, anyone ?
Frankly, who can believe anything they say . . . including if/when Russians entered certain territory ?
Its not like they've been caught lying before <sarc>
I hope they have better directions than the Langley 9-11 fighter pilots...
oh they were in the air, but they were ordered to fly around in circles without using afterburners.
things that make you go hmm...
Guess they didn't have a Cheney around to order a stand down.
The World hates Washington D.C. and Goldman Sachs and people weren't meant to fly.
Meanwhile bullish news for Apple owners:
"Multiple iPhone/iPad/Mac users in Australia are reporting their devices being remotely locked and a ransom demand being made to get them unlocked again. However, unlike PC ransomware, the vector of attack here seems to be Apple's iCloud service with the attacker getting to a database of username/password credentials associated with the accounts. It is unclear if the database was one of Apple's or the hacker is simply using the fact that people reuse the same password for multiple accounts and is using data stolen from another source. Apple is yet to respond, but there has already been one report of the issue affecting a user in the UK."
http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/05/27/1241220/australian-iphone-and-ipad...
Scrambled jets? I like my jets over easy.
This fucktard would like to know what this has to do with security or defense? http://www.caseyresearch.com/cdd/the-colder-war-and-the-end-of-the-petro...
Little lesson in physics no plane in world that can outrun a laser. Just a little "war is the health of the state" Side show... heck the terror bogey man is getting a little old... just going with what they know...
Putin getting a bit reckless.
WHEEEEEEEEE....YURI! LOOKIE LOOKIE...WE GOT GLORIOUS NATO TO SCRAMBLE THEIR PLANES....COMRADE POOTIN WILL GIVE US MEDAL OF SOME SORT...
NOW..where's the vodka Yuri...
Dont worry, Putin is shitting his pants worrying about Nato.
current disposition in the area:
US F-15C x6 in Lithuania
Polish Mig-29 x4 in Lithuania
British Typhoons x4 in Lithuania
French Raphale x4 in Poland
U.S F-16x12 in Poland
Canadian F-18C x6 in Romania
Danish F-16 x4 in Estonia
Poland and Lithuania seem to be the best protected by the NATO group.
I wonder why?
How dare the Russians fly their planes so close to another country's borders. Maybe they thought it is a new whacky Western Craze that they wern't invited to partake in?
They've been watching their neighbour country being invaded for months now not just by planes but by Ships, Assistant State Secretary's, Vice Presidents, CIA Directors, CIA and FBI operatives as well as Mercenaries. Then, there's been Vice Presidents sons, and Secretary of State's Adopted Sons.
How dare they!
I think the clue maybe in the wording "after". Testing response times, usual cold war stuff. Bit like flying that Bear down the California coast recently. I expect they're still laughing about that.
Here is where we are at:
a playground where the craziest kids have organised a group that by using biggest kids bully, rape and extort all the kids in the school. there is a crazy kid of the different lineage with a lots of toys and a nuclear bomb. is he going to let them take his toys, string him up like saddam, do him like gaddafi, milosevic etc
the playground is at the end of its timeline.
dem russ skis will neva be allowed lithuania
dem litherranian bitches belongs to israel godamit
it says so in der bible tora bora
NATO is just another jobs program, far as I can tell.
How desperate these guys are for a war before the whole facade of Western centralized "capitalism" comes crashing down on them!
No doubt we'll be having one with another banner "false flag" event before summer lets out.
Looking again towards the PM markets the level of impunity is without equal as the ratcheting up of the NATO war tribe continues!
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2014/05/the-illegality-of-nato/
http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2014/05/27/405812-ukraine-and-eu-integrat...
Which guys, Son? All the aggression over the Baltic States is coming from Russian incursions. Which is strange. What is the point? Pilots are just following orders. There is really no emotional or "human" content to these actions. It therefore cannot be "spontaneous". Orders are orders. Why give the order? What will this benefit Russia?
I have yet to hear of NATO overflying St. Petersburg or NATO jets buzzing land or sea targets so Russia gets the ever worsening label of "Bad Guys" by the people. Fading memories of Russian brutality get dredged up. These independent peoples were enslaved and oppressed by Russia for many decades and this only ended 20 years ago! Why would you want to foster a DISCUSSION of the Soviet past and the Russian Imperial past bringing this all to mind for the latest generation of Baltic residents?
Do you get it? I don't.
Imagine if Japan started aggressively buzzing South Korean shipping vessels? Or Filipino vessels? Or Australian vessels? The world would first say of Japan: "CRAZY!". After multiple similar Japanese gestures they would then say "STUPID", and then they would take military actions not to the advantage of Japan.
So, dear Russians of ZeroHedge, what advantage does this posturing and bullying by Russia really buy it? And what does it cost Russian Business? What is so important and necessary that Princess Putin would ask your military to shit on the good will of your neighbors? I cannot identify any benefit other than domestic political advantages for this one man, PUTIN.
This is all really a cynical play for your hearts and support and I hope you can see this. But these actions will cost your country greatly and already has and if you travel it will cost you in terms of your respect and reputation. I'd be as pissed at Bush and Obama as you should be at Putin.
I have read that Russia had monarchy which was overthrown by communists who used to have congress in brussels and london and were guests of the wall street. Same communists whom than went to enslave most of the slavs and and the baltic states. I have also read that when soviets tried to put missiles in Cuba it nearly started nuclear war. Same Cuba which up to today is under sactions. I have also read that USA spent billions to create ground for a civil war in Ukraine. And so on
the propaganda that you are writting is becoming obvious for what it is even to the least interested of the population. Only those really brainwashed or those whose income depends on it, believe in it
Very well put, surprised you don't have more down arrows from all the putin luvers in here....
This ought to stirr them up a bit!
I *LIVE* for down arrows!
I've said it before - jets and nukes are no match for bugs, and the Russians have world-class bugs. The West hasn't even begun to account for all the old Russian nukes - what makes anyone think their bio-weapons stocks are gone? All this posturing with antique hardware is so yesterday's warfare.
It's hard to scramble a jet when your insides are pouring out your asshole, and cornered rats WILL fight to the death.
What a surprise announcment from the gang at Wa-Po given that debate on the Senate floor this weekend between "John(s)" Kerry and McCinsane?... Like the well oiled machine that it is -Hey???
If I were Petro I'd be thinking about that headless Italian journalist and Russian interpretor that got snuffed attempting to report the truth on the folly of a rigged election this past weekend as the newly "installed" junta President!
After all... You can't sell candy and run a military dictatorship without your head!
Willy Wonka would beg to differ
"Don't do it Mav..."
"You're going to do it..."
Typhoons ? You mean Eurofighter.....the plane designed in 1970s to fight MIGs......4 you say ? That must be at least 2 squadrons of the RAF......now they cannibalise for parts
Smells Like:
A Manufactured Event