Our Friends the Russkies

For anyone who thinks that Russia is now a model of sweetness and light and Commissar Putin is a benign world leader, consider this article. The Russians have tasked their hunter-killer subs for the first time in 25 years to record the acoustic signatures of British, American and French ballistic missile subs.

 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/7969017/Russian-subs-stalk-Trident-in-echo-of-Cold-War.html

Did you know that Russia is also flight testing a fifth-generation fighter allegedly equivalent to our F-22? That, of course, is the fighter that Obama recently canceled. Yup - let's all hold hands and sing Kumbaya together - a 1 and a 2!!


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