Results 1 to 6 of 6

Thread: Russian Bombers Fly into US Air Space Before State of Union

  1. #1

    Russian Bombers Fly into US Air Space Before State of Union

    You'd think this would have created a little more buzz.



    2 Russian Bombers Fly into US Air Space Before State of Union
    http://armstrongeconomics.com/2013/0...tate-of-union/

    http://freebeacon.com/bear-bombers-over-guam/

    Two Russian nuclear-armed bombers circled the western Pacific island of Guam this week in the latest sign of Moscow’s growing strategic assertiveness toward the United States.
    The Russian Tu-95 Bear-H strategic bombers were equipped with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and were followed by U.S. jets as they circumnavigated Guam on Feb. 12 local time—hours before President Barack Obama’s state of the union address.
    [...]
    The bomber incident was considered highly unusual. Russian strategic bombers are not known to have conducted such operations in the past into the south Pacific from bomber bases in the Russian Far East, which is thousands of miles away and over water.
    [...]
    Guam is one of the key strategic U.S. military bases under the Obama administration’s new “pivot” to Asia policy. As a result, it is a target of China and North Korea. Both have missiles capable of hitting the island, located about 1,700 miles east of the Philippines in the Mariana island chain.

    This week’s bomber flights are a sign the Russians are targeting the island as well, one defense official said.
    [...]
    Guam also plays a key role in the Pentagon’s semi-secret strategy called the Air-Sea Battle Concept designed to counter what the Pentagon calls China’s anti-access and area denial weapons—precision guided missiles, submarines, anti-satellite weapons, and other special warfighting capabilities designed to prevent the U.S. military from defending allies or keeping sea lanes open in the region.

    Defense officials disclosed the incident to the Free Beacon and said the Russian bomber flights appeared to be a strategic message from Moscow timed to the president’s state of the union speech.

    “They were sending a message to Washington during the state of the union speech,” one official said.
    [...]
    “It shows that the Russians, like the Chinese, are not just going to sit idly by and watch the United States ‘pivot’ or ‘rebalance’ its forces toward Asia,” said former State Department security official Mark Groombridge.

    “One could argue the Russians were poking a bit of fun at the Obama Administration, seeing how they flew these long-range bombers close to Guam on the same day as the state of the union address,” he said.
    [...]
    The Russian air incursion around Guam was the third threatening strategic bomber incident since June. On July 4th, two Bear H’s operated at the closest point to the United States that a Russian bomber has flown since the Soviet Union routinely conducted such flights.

    The July bomber flights near California followed an earlier incident in June when two Bear H’s ran up against the air defense zone near Alaska as part of large-scale strategic exercises that Moscow said involved simulated attacks on U.S. missile defense bases. The Pentagon operates missile defense bases in Alaska and California.
    Last edited by Lucille; 02-19-2013 at 05:23 PM.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock



  2. Remove this section of ads by registering.
  3. #2
    Maybe a little message to the president about staying out of Syria and Iran?

    I think that is a possibility.

  4. #3
    Air space near Guam? Not exactly a major incident. We fly near their territories all the time as well.

    And note that they were promptly escorted off the property.
    Last edited by Zippyjuan; 02-19-2013 at 07:53 PM.

  5. #4
    Blah blah MIC at it again, gotta have big bad mr fear to scare the people!
    No one reads signatures.

  6. #5
    ......and meteors impacted where again????oh yeah CCCP. Old timey cold warriors will recognize that one!
    Maxed out to ALL of Ron Paul's campaigns.

    Listen to Liberty Tree Radio! ::

    Pro-Liberty, Pro-Gun, Pro-Militia Radio 5 days a week, 10 LIVE HRS TALK RADIO PER DAY!

    http://www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com

    http://www.themicroeffect.com (8A - 11A EST daily)

    http://www.live365.com/stations/edtheak47 (3 PM- 9 PM EST daily)


    Organize, Arm, Equip, and Train as a Militia !


  7. #6
    So, since the Ruskies know the US Government operates in a state of paranoia, this was just one of your "pals" $#@!ing with you, in a timed gag.
    The American Dream, Wake Up People, This is our country! <===click

    "All eyes are opened, or opening to the rights of man, let the annual return of this day(July 4th), forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."
    Thomas Jefferson
    June 1826



    Rock The World!
    USAF Veteran



Similar Threads

  1. As we argue RUSSIAN BOMBERS just landed in Venezuela !! WTF
    By Falseflagop in forum World News & Affairs
    Replies: 36
    Last Post: 09-16-2008, 05:07 PM
  2. Chavez expels US envoy, Threatens with Oil and 2 Russian Bombers!!
    By RSLudlum in forum World News & Affairs
    Replies: 10
    Last Post: 09-13-2008, 05:15 AM
  3. NATO fighters accompany Russian bombers near Alaska VIDEO
    By New Governor Of Alaska in forum U.S. Political News
    Replies: 8
    Last Post: 03-27-2008, 03:11 PM
  4. Navy Intercepts Russian Bombers
    By RSLudlum in forum World News & Affairs
    Replies: 3
    Last Post: 02-11-2008, 07:01 PM
  5. Thirty Russian bombers take part in exercises over two oceans
    By New Governor Of Alaska in forum World News & Affairs
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: 02-09-2008, 03:10 PM

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •