Note the choice by the Russians at RT of the main photo used for this RT article below — Russian warships on Navy Day parading through St. Petersburg harbor.
FILE PHOTO © Aleksandr Galperin / Sputnik
The message to patriotard Cabinet Secretary and Trump appointee Ryan Zinke — who is apparently at a George Dubya Bush IQ level — and to any FOX zombie patriotards out there, is A US NAVAL BLOCKADE MEANS WAR.
Defense Minister Shoigu and President Putin wach military drills in Tsugol, Siberia, Sept. 2018
Plus Russia does not NEED a navy as big as America’s if it has missiles that can send anything we have to the bottom!
Russia was shooting down our U-2 planes flying at 70,000 feet in the early 1960s (which both were hit while trespassing, flying over Russian and Cuban air space).
Accurate scene from the highly factual and excellent docudrama “13 Days” about John Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. On 27 October 1962 a Russian SAM missile, fired by order of Soviet-Russian General Gretchko, hit USAF Major Rudolf Anderson’s U-2 spy plane at 70,000 feet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Anderson
Two SAMs for Uncle Sam….
And the Russian bear swiped down twelve hundred American jetfighters or bombers over North and South Vietnam a few years later with other SAM missiles in the middle and late 1960s. (Ask, by séance now, John McCain about that one!)
***The Sheltons
I was friends in the late 1980s with this Kentucky lady, Marian Shelton, then staying with a friend in San Diego, California ….
…..whose Air Force colonel husband Charles had been shot down over Laos in 1965. Colonel Shelton, a captured POW, never did come home.
Tragically, Marian ended her life on 4 October 1990, convinced correctly that the Reagan-Bush administration, for all its patriotic tough talk, had no intention whatsoever of demanding North Vietnam return her husband, the senior POW whom the Vietnamese marxists never returned.
An outspoken leader of the POW wives demanding action, Marian Shelton told me she feared the government was using a brain weapon to try to get her to feel crazy, or, worse, act crazy, feel depressed, hopeless and suicidal.
She also told me that, so as to intimidate her, the government was shooting a green laser dot through her bedroom window, which then roamed all over her bedroom ceiling at night, as if to say: “We are here, watching you.”
I now believe Marian was telling the truth. A lot more has come out about psychotronic weapons, used to torture, terrify or kill American citizens.
Even the CIA tool called the Washington Post has openly confirmed it:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011001399_pf.html
Marian Shelton, née Marian Vollman (German), was a lovely American lady. She had married Charles, her high school sweetheart, also an outstanding high school football player, and bore him five good kids. This is how much her life was worth to the Jewish Deep State — nothing.
From the Jew York Times in 1994 (https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/05/us/children-of-the-last-pow-close-a-pain-filled-chapter.html)
Mrs. Shelton worked tirelessly for her husband’s return, traveling to Southeast Asia and becoming active in the P.O.W.-M.I.A. movement. But rumors that he was still alive alternately instilled hope and despair, contributing to a progressive debilitation of the spirit that led her to kill herself.
Her gravestone at Arlington Cemetery, next to his (empty) grave.
“I’m bitter,” John Shelton said today. “I think of my mom as a casualty of the Vietnam War.”
Finally, this Sept. 20, the Air Force changed Colonel Shelton’s status from P.O.W. to killed in action. The change followed a request from the Shelton children, who had decided that after 29 years and the 1990 suicide of their mother, the matter needed to be put to rest.
The five children were each presented an American flag at today’s brief service at their mother’s grave, where in a few months the tombstone will be replaced by one with Colonel Shelton’s name as well as her own.
Lea Ann Shelton of Louisville, Ky., the older of two daughters, wept as four F-15’s from Langley Air Force Base flew a missing-man formation — a V shape except for a missing plane at one wing — through a chill sky filled with wisps of thin clouds.
Another of Colonel Shelton’s children, the Rev. Charles E. Shelton Jr., a Roman Catholic priest from Riverside, Calif., eulogized his father as “one of the most extraordinary military officers our nation ever produced.”
“History will prove his legend to be more fact than fiction,” Father Shelton said, alluding to stories, periodically drifting from Southeast Asia over the years, about his father’s courage as a captive. “He feared God, was passionately faithful to his wife, proud of his family, enjoyed his friends, cherished his children and fought ferociously his foes. He served his country very well — very well, indeed.“
A monument erected in 1999 shows the facts about the case and depicts the wife and her five little children.
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Russian video with whimsical music of their missiles shooting down US fighter jets and B-52 heavy bombers over Vietnam…
You don’t need a zillion jets and ships like the U.S. — just good but relatively cheap missiles to destroy them. Four $150,000 missiles can bring down a $25 million jet and a highly trained pilot!
The summary at the end says Russian missiles shot down 1,293 US aircraft over Vietnam, using on average four missiles per kill.
Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_losses_of_the_Vietnam_War):
During the Vietnam War, thousands of U.S. aircraft were lost to [Soviet-Russian-supplied] antiaircraft artillery (AAA), surface-to-air missiles(SAMs), and fighter interceptors (MiG)s.
The Russians have long had EXCELLENT missiles! (It comes from an outstanding public-education system and top scientific and engineering programs.)
And ONE Russian rocket can take out a $7 billion US aircraft carrier — and send 5,000 sailors and a hundred jet fighters (at $30 to $120 million apiece) to a watery grave!
“A US blockade of Russia would be equal to a declaration of war under international law,” said the head of the Russian Senate’s Information Policy Committee, Aleksey Pushkov, commenting on a report that US Internal Secretary Ryan Zinke suggested the US could use the navy to block Russian energy from hitting Middle East markets.
Pushkov also called Zinke’s claim that trade expansion is the real reason behind Russia’s involvement in Syria “absolute nonsense.”
The very idea that Russia could potentially supply energy to the Middle East, which is literally “oozing with oil,” is absolutely detached from reality, Pushkov said. Indeed, Russia does not supply any energy to the region, which is itself a major oil exporter, and has never announced plans to do so.
The Russian senator added that Zinke’s statement is “on par” with Sarah Palin’s claim that she was qualified to talk about Russia since “they’re our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia here from Alaska.”
The former Alaska governor made the statement in an interview when she was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in the 2008 US election.
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Attempts to exert pressure on Russia “are not going to end in anything good,” a member of the Russian Senate’s Defense and Security Committee, Franz Klintsevich, told journalists, adding that they would lead “to a major scandal” at the very least, and Washington “should clearly understand it.”
Russian MPs called Zinke’s words “disturbing.” “It is unsettling that our partners once again resort to threats, sanctions and unfriendly actions instead of discussing the pressing international issues,” a member of the State Duma International Affairs Committee, Anton Morozov, said. He also said that Russia “has something to respond with” but that such actions would only lead to an escalation of tensions, and called for dialog instead.
Washington seems to be bothered by Moscow’s international trade. The Trump administration has been seeking to replace Russia as Europe’s gas supplier by boosting exports of its liquefied natural gas, even though Russian gas is a cheaper option for Europe.
US officials, including President Donald Trump himself, have repeatedly pressed Germany to pull out of the “inappropriate” Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, which is set to double Russia’s natural gas transport capacity to 110 billion cubic meters. While Moscow has repeatedly stated that it is a purely economic project, Trump claims it will make Germany a “captive” of Russia.
The US is not focusing on the energy trade alone, as it has also threatened to impose sanctions on countries buying Russian arms in what could be another example of competition between the two nations. These efforts, however, seem to be in vain as well.
Most recently, India cleared the way for the purchase of Russian frigates and air defense systems. Turkey also defied threats from the US and said it does not need anyone’s permission to buy Russia’s S-400 missile systems. Even close US ally Saudi Arabia is now in talks with Russia to purchase the same defense systems. Moscow has repeatedly denounced US attempts to hamper its trade under various pretexts as unfair competition.
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…..My comment
Pardon my vulgarity…but I have seen this in the schoolyard, in the bar, and elsewhere.
Loudmouth dickheads always think they can take anyone.
Don’t mess with The Bear.
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