I am so happy Brandon has restored world respect to the United States again. (sarc) Russia has a deep sea submersible piggy backed to a submarine just for mapping or fooling with undersea cables. Now might not be a good time to visit Ukraine or Taiwan,
Norwegian Undersea Surveillance Network Had Its Cables Mysteriously Cut
Now we also have a GPS outage over the Western US, not that the CCP has a wat to knock out our satellites they might want to test or anything. Just sayin’.
Maybe Poland should think about annexing Kaliningrad. Crimea gives some valid precedence that such a move is perfectly legitimate, I mean Obama and Joe were totally cool with it.
ETA: It would make a real nice NATO joint naval center.
With the way Russia has been acting lately, either Putin is just flexing orthey have really good intel telling them that Biden absolutely will not respond to a military attack on Ukraine. This is history repeating itself: It’s looking like Germany and Czechoslovakia in 1938.
Funny when you really think about it. A sub (that they can’t identify - ‘the cause of the damage’) came along and destroyed the stuff they have installed to collect data about passing submarines.
Undersea sensors off the coast of northern Norway that are able to collect data about passing submarines, among other things, have been knocked out, the country’s state-operated Institute of Marine Research, or IMR, has revealed. The cause of the damage is unknown,
Thinking they need to do a LOT better job on their ‘Undersea Surveillance Network’ if any of what they said is really true.
Chamberlain at least finally admitted that he had royally f’ed up when Germany invaded Poland and supported the UK’s declaration of war. I don’t know if Biden would even be willing to go to war with Russia if he invaded a NATO country.
I honestly believe Poopy Pants would be OK with a Russian invasion of the Southeastern US.
“C’mon man, as long as they don’t cross the Mason-Dixon line…”
On topic though, the Norwegian sensor network is a real problem for D-E subs of the Baltic fleet. They like to pretend that the Baltic Sea is theirs, exclusively. They also like to remind Norway, Sweden, and Finland that they are still a threat.
They piss and moan about “security” and “space” while having nuclear capable short range ballistic missiles in KO.
Turkey can’t block the straits, but you know what they CAN do? Blockades to keep their cities safe. If Russia’s Navy stays in the Black Sea, they are contained.
If we are depending upon Turkey to protect anything or anyone, we are already done. Putin would have seen this move and already made arrangements with Turkey.
Trumps number one agenda when elected was to get things sorted out with Russia, unfortunately as soon as he got elected the Dems screamed that Russia manipulated the election and Trump didn’t anticipate that move or have a plan to deal with it so all “Russian negotiation” was stillborn.
Putin is slowly rebuilding his empire and honestly we probably don’t want Brandon playing master class chess with Putin. This is why he’s making his move. Look for shit to jump off during the Beijing Olympics, that is typically when Russia does land grabs.
Ironically when Russia moved on Georgia, the 2008 Olympics were ALSO in Beijing.
Then do you also distrust our subs sitting outside the straits and inside the Black Sea?
Keeping their navy as occupied as possible in the Black Sea keeps everyone safer. Hard to think our Navy, UK Navy, anyone’s navy hasn’t thought about that.
Curious, what empire is Putin rebuilding of his? He went in post-Yeltin at ostensibly their weakest time, and not a lot has changed in the way of territory (though their largesse is considerably bigger).
Also, USN had huge FONOPS in the south sea, and China flew largest formation ever incursion near Taiwan today. Don’t know if they are working in cahoots, but they each know to others intentions and are at least tassel a working off of one another.
I trust our Navy, not sure I trust our administration to make the correct decisions regarding their deployment.
As for Putin, he has engaged in a few key land grabs. Crimea, Georgia and the like. I don’t see him reacquiring all of Eastern Europe that was once part of the Soviet Union, but he isn’t above simply taking things when he believes nobody can or will oppose him. Some things like the Crimean Peninsula were probably inevitable given it’s strategic importance to the Russian Federation. But he’s already made one significant play for the rest of Ukraine and I don’t see him being deterred by anyone from trying again.
