With US officials continuing to talk up “Russian aggression,” the Pentagon has sent a pair of F-22 Raptors to Romania, in what is being described as a “show of force” to prove US capabilities to deploy such planes anywhere in NATO territory.
The F-22s have been seldom-used by the Pentagon, annd repeatedly grounded by technical problems. Despite this, the program has cost an estimated $66 billion, well more than Russia spends on its entire military in a given year.
It’s the latest in a series of deployments of US military assets to the Russian frontier, all claiming Russian “aggression” as a justification, despite a lack of Russia actually doing anything beyond deployments reacting to the US buildup.
The pilots denied the F-22s were deployed to “provoke anybody,” though one of the pilots also referenced Russian intercepts of US warplanes along their border as a cause for the deployment, saying they “just want to encourage them to do that in a safe way.”
U.S. Sends warplanes to Russia’s perimeter and NATO army to their border. Ummmm, who is the aggressor? Last I checked there are no Russian warplanes on the Mexican or Canadian border? right?
And they send junk. The F22, thankfully, was abandoned as useless,
easily detected by Russian radar, inoperable in the rain and unable to
communicate with other forces. Were these give-aways or did some fool buy
them?
Neither. It’s more a “show & tell” complete with US pilots, with the US maintaining ownership. Like the schoolyard weakling bringing his big brother to frighten off the bullies on the playground.
No doubt about it, the West are the bad guys, led by the US of course. You’ve got that part figured out.
We’re going to play cold war for a while again and the US is betting that it can bankrupt Russia first. But the US would have to get rid of Putin first and he’s not a quitter.
For those who may not know, Putin is not satan, he’s the leader of a nuclear armed country. Domonizing him makes him stronger in the eyes of his people.
Peace Laureate Obama: a psychopathic narcissist, stuffed shirt, fraud and imposter of the first order. He and the his Clinton act are both venemous neo liberal war-mongering shills for the MIC, bought and paid for, and pushing for war with Russia and China at the risk of total global annihilation, all in the name of ‘Full spectrum dominance’. Beyond tragic.
Hey, give the kid a break. He was roped into this game and no doubt wants out. Want to see Hellfire ? She’s next!
“Ratcheting up the tensions” again!
It seems that America has had a slight in Russia refusing to answer in the traditional way to American Gunboat diplomacy! Beware of poking the bear, it might just turn around and bite you! With that bite reaching continental United States, remember NOBODY wins a nuclear war! But also remember that Russians are used to a deprived lifestyle of hardship, America not at all! Also Russians are watching these actions and are well advised that the US is being adversarial and what is happening is US Aggression.
Wow. the US proves its warplanes can fly from one place to another.
2 airplanes is NOT a news worthy story maybe we could get the Russians to use some of their OLD airplanes to fight against these 2 wonderful aircraft maybe we should just PAY the Russians instead of WASTING our tax money on these CRAP AIRPLANES and the scum that builds this worthless crap.