{"id":104544,"date":"2020-08-31T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104544"},"modified":"2020-08-31T11:05:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T15:05:55","slug":"russian-sub-toys-with-us-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104544","title":{"rendered":"Russian Sub Toys With US Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Skippy, we have even more news about how bold the Russians are getting to be these days.<\/p>\n

An unnamed Russian sub surfaced in Alaskan waters. (It is not the sub pictured below, sorry.)<\/p>\n

\"\"The Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine K-266 Orel.<\/p>\n

(Alexei Druzhinin\/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)<\/p>\n

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From the article: ANCHORAGE, Alaska \u2014 A Russian submarine surfaced near Alaska on Thursday during a Russian war game exercise, U.S. military officials said.\u00a0 <\/span>It was unclear why it surfaced.<\/p>\n

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The North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command are closely monitoring the submarine, Northern Command spokesman Bill Lewis said.<\/div>\n

\u201cWe have not received any requests for assistance from the Russian Navy or other mariners in the area,\u201d Lewis said from Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado. \u201cWe always stand ready to assist those in distress.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lewis declined to provide further details about the submarine, including its proximity to Alaska. He only said it was operating in international waters near Alaska.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/08\/27\/russian-submarine-surfaces-near-alaska-during-war-exercise\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have not received any requests for assistance from the Russian Navy or other mariners in the area,\u201d Lewis said from Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado. \u201cWe always stand ready to assist those in distress.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

Lewis declined to provide further details about the submarine, including its proximity to Alaska. He only said it was operating in international waters near Alaska. – article<\/p>\n

So Vlad Putin is getting frisky, sort of like his distant predecessor Nikita Krushcheve did when Jack Kennedy was in the White House. If you were around back then, you may recall that little episode of Soviet friskiness referred to as the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, and the subsequent blockade\u00a0 of Soviet ships by the US Navy, under orders from President Kennedy.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2009\/10\/kennedy-imposes-naval-blockade-of-cuba-oct-22-1962-028584<\/a><\/p>\n

From Politico:<\/p>\n

The president said the United States would not exclude using military force to end what he called a \u201cclandestine, reckless and provocative threat to world peace.\u201d Thus opened the public phase of the Cuban missile crisis. For the next six days, it threatened to precipitate a nuclear war between the world\u2019s two superpowers. The Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had advised Kennedy to order a \u201csurgical\u201d strike to take out the missiles, put U.S. military forces around the world on DEFCON 2, the highest military alert ever reached in the postwar era.<\/p>\n

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On Oct. 26, as White House advisers weighed whether to attack Cuba, the Soviets proposed removing the missiles in exchange for a U.S. pledge not to invade the island nation. The next day, however, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, under pressure from his military brass, upped the ante by calling for the dismantling of U.S. missile bases in Turkey. – article<\/div>\n
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So now you have to ask, with Russian planes off the coast of Alaska and Russian subs snooping around in those waters, are we going back in time or is this just Vlad Putin playing ‘poke the Americans’.\u00a0 It appears that some things never change.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end….<\/div>\n
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