Russian Jets fly to California coast in "show of force" over Ukraine

[eldirector]

To clarify. I don't care if Russia does this to other people... Or if we do it.

You just don't do it to us.

There's a reason they think they can now

That is a very odd statement, coming from you.

I'd think we would insist on doing the "right thing", for both ourselves and others.

 

[hornadylnl]

That is a very odd statement, coming from you.

I'd think we would insist on doing the "right thing", for both ourselves and others.

Welcome to republican foreign policy.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Let's put it this way. A group of hostile people approach your property... just outside of your property... Do you just watch them? Do you tell them to sod off? Or do you show them you're ready to respond to their hostility if they come any closer?

Right now, it seems like we're just watching them flex. And they're being pompous and antagonizing us for a response.

What have they done that's hostile? How are we not showing we're ready to respond?

I know its the new hotness to claim that Obama is weak out of one side or our mouth and talk about how much he uses drones to kill people out of the other side, but let's have some perspective. Which is really more threatening, an aircraft near our air space borders or about 2,000 nuclear missiles ready to launch? Should we start bombing the crap out of Russia since they have nukes pointed at us and have for as long as most of us here have been alive?

 

[ArcadiaGP]

That is a very odd statement, coming from you.

I'd think we would insist on doing the "right thing", for both ourselves and others.

Welcome to republican foreign policy.

I've just accepted the fact that we are the most powerful country in the world, and should remain as such. Provocation of us shouldn't go unpunished.

Maybe Russia feels super-powerful on their side of the world, and feels the same about lesser nations on their side. But I don't accept the fact that them challenging or provoking us is a "yawn"-worthy action.

 

[Birds Away]

I've just accepted the fact that we are the most powerful country in the world, and should remain as such. Provocation of us shouldn't go unpunished.

Maybe Russia feels super-powerful on their side of the world, and feels the same about lesser nations on their side. But I don't accept the fact that them challenging or provoking us is a "yawn"-worthy action.

It has to be. You don't want to start the "one upmanship" game. That can have very dire consequences for everyone.

 

[hornadylnl]

I've just accepted the fact that we are the most powerful country in the world, and should remain as such. Provocation of us shouldn't go unpunished.

Maybe Russia feels super-powerful on their side of the world, and feels the same about lesser nations on their side. But I don't accept the fact that them challenging or provoking us is a "yawn"-worthy action.

In a few months you'll be celebrating independence from exactly what you're advocating.

Bravo.

 

[rambone]

Obama needs to start a shooting war with the Russians to prove his manhood.

 

[churchmouse]

Obama needs to start a shooting war with the Russians to prove his manhood.

No but any actions verifying he is indeed a man would be refreshing.

 

[avboiler11]

Bears cruising up and down US coasts and around US interests are nothing new - this stuff has been going on for DECADES.

And yes, there are ANG units on the left coast that have pointy-nose aircraft/crews sitting alert for airspace incursions.

 

[Birds Away]

Bears cruising up and down US coasts and around US interests are nothing new - this stuff has been going on for DECADES.

And yes, there are ANG units on the left coast that have pointy-nose aircraft/crews sitting alert for airspace incursions.

Thanks, I wasn't sure. Even so the Bears have very long legs and "off the coast of California" covers a lot of ground. Bears are very cool aircraft to observe from the ground. They have an amazingly slim fuselage.

 

[printcraft]

...... What Putin now sees in the Obama administration is weakness that he can exploit to his benefit.........

You're Putin me on.

Where in the hell would Putin get that kind of idea?

[video=youtube;XsFR8DbSRQE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsFR8DbSRQE[/video]


****.

 

[Birds Away]

This should be filed under: "Much ado about nothing".

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

If you think posturing doesn't happen on our side:

Talk to me Goose.

 

[indiucky]

No but any actions verifying he is indeed a man would be refreshing.

He shot skeet that one time at Camp David...???

 

[printcraft]

He shot skeet that one time at Camp David...???

Those had to be some of the lowest clay pigeons of all time........

Here are some artist renderings of what might have been just out of camera range.......

 

[JetGirl]

We probably shouldn't get too cocky about what we can/can't do until we start becoming the best source of our own munitions again.

 

[Birds Away]

I am not confident, at present, that we would respond if they invaded Guam let alone just flying by.

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

"The 80's called - they want their foreign policy back."

 

[mydoghasfleas]

All this bellicosity should not come from "the shining city on the hill".

 

[Scutter01]

"The 80's called - they want their foreign policy back."

You have a phone that can call the past? Can I borrow it? I need to make some fairly important calls.