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Category: Russia

  • Jailed American, Paul Whelan,  not exactly the Secret Squirrel Ivan was hoping for.  

    Jailed American, Paul Whelan,  not exactly the Secret Squirrel Ivan was hoping for.  

    Russia’s deputy foreign minister is brushing back suggestions that an American being held in Moscow on suspicion of spying could be exchanged for a Russian.

    I have no idea how useless a Russian would have to be in order for me to exchange a guy with a Bad Conduct Discharge from the Corps for him.   Let me think …  ah …  nah, Ivan can keep this dirtbag as long as he wants to.

    Whelan’s Marine record also would likely prevent U.S. intelligence from hiring him. He began active duty with the Marines in 2003 and was deployed twice to Iraq, rising to staff sergeant. But his military career ended with a court martial in 2008, when he was convicted on charges that included attempted larceny and dereliction of duty.

    Court documents released by the military show he was accused of attempting to steal more than $10,000 while on duty in Iraq, where he worked as a clerk, in September 2006. He was also convicted of using a false social security number and profile for a military computer system to grade his own examinations, and of writing 10 bad checks totaling around $6,000.

    He was dropped two grades in rank and given a bad conduct discharge from the Marine Corps.

    Let Putin feed his ass for a while.  Not sure where a guy that works for a Temp Agency gets money to travel.  He seems to like Russia, let him stay for a while.

     

    Source: Jailed American spent years collecting Russian contacts

  • The Russians Now Have a Hypersonic Missile

    Vladimir Putin

    I’m only posting this now, because Vlad Putin is Russian Orthodox and the Orthodox Church doesn’t celebrate Christmas until January. And that’s getting close. Vlad is pawing the ground and snorting. He can now claim a successful launch of a hypersonic missile (a/k/a  a glide vehicle, per the story) as his ultimate answer to the US’s aggressive warmongering. Full story is at the link: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/12/26/putin-oversees-hypersonic-weapon-test-says-its-invulnerable/

    These days, I can’t figure out if he’s whistling Dixie in Russian or just yankin’ us because it’s fun for him to do so.

    From the article:  Speaking to Russia’s top military brass after watching the live feed of the launch of the Avangard vehicle from the Defense Ministry’s control room, Putin said the successful test was a “great success” and an “excellent New Year’s gift to the nation.”

    The test comes amid bitter tensions in Russia-U.S. relations, which have sunk to their lowest level since the Cold War times over the conflict in Ukraine, the war in Syria and the allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

    Note the linkie thingie to another article in the middle of the missile test news, in which he says we’re threatening him with war. Here it is:  https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/12/20/putins-ominous-warning-us-is-raising-threat-of-nuclear-war/

    Oh, puh-lease!  Yes, Vlad, I do know about Tsar Bomba, what it was like and its range. But that was the 1960s and this is a lot later. I lived through that. So did a lot of other people I know.

    We are not the ones who want nuclear war. We have always seen nukes, et al., as deterrents, not weapons. We won’t start it, but by God, we will end it.  We were glad the Cold War ended. You should have learned something from that.

    Be careful what you wish for, Vlad. You might not like it.

    Anyway,  Schastlivogo Rozhdestva.

    (My Cyrillic  script didn’t work here, so it’s phonetic.)