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While Biden keeps talking about Ukraine, America is under siege at home. Our enemies are closing in and testing us. From China’s spy balloons and hacks to this latest incursion, the threats are close to home.
A combined Russian and Chinese naval force patrolled near the coast of Alaska earlier this week in what U.S. experts said appeared to be the largest such flotilla to approach American shores.
Eleven Russian and Chinese ships steamed close to the Aleutian Islands, according to U.S. officials. The ships, which never entered U.S. territorial waters and have since left, were shadowed by four U.S. destroyers and P-8 Poseidon aircraft.
“It is a historical first,” said Brent Sadler, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a retired Navy captain.
It’s also an escalation.
In contrast, a lone U.S. Coast Guard cutter was on the scene when a flotilla of seven Russian and Chinese ships operated in September near the Aleutians off Alaska.
Aerial encounters have been increasing.
U.S. fighter jets intercepted Russian bomber aircraft near Alaska Monday, according to the Alaskan Region of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
This marks the first incident in the area since an American drone was downed by Russian forces last month.
U.S. military command officials said in March that a Russian Su-27 fighter jet dumped fuel on a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone flying over the Black Sea, clipped the drone’s propeller and forced it into the water.
The Kremlin issued state awards to the fighter jet pilots responsible for downing the U.S. drone.
This is an escalation that we’re not paying attention to.
The crew of the Bristol Leader was laying out its long cod-catching line well within U.S. fishing territory in the Bering Sea when a voice crackled over the VHF radio and began issuing commands: The ship was in danger, it said, and needed to move.
The warnings, coming in a mixture of Russian and accented English from a plane buzzing overhead, grew more specific and more urgent. There was a submarine nearby, the voice said. Missiles were being fired. Leave the area.
Other U.S. fishing vessels that were scattered over 100 miles of open sea were getting similar messages. Capt. Steve Elliott stood dumbfounded on the trawler Vesteraalen as three Russian warships came barreling through, barking orders of their own. On the ship Blue North, commands from a Russian plane led Capt. David Anderson to contact the U.S. Coast Guard, wondering how to protect his crew of 27.
“It was frightening, to say the least,” Captain Anderson said. “The Coast Guard’s response was: Just do what they say.”
Russians have refurbished and restored dozens of military posts in the Arctic region, including on Wrangel Island, some 300 miles from the coast of Alaska, and have laid plans for controlling emerging navigation routes that would bring traffic through the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia.
Tim Thomas, a U.S. captain on the fishing vessel Northern Jaeger, encountered the Russian activities on Aug. 26 when his ship was operating more than 20 nautical miles inside the U.S. economic zone. After a Russian plane directed Captain Thomas to take his boat out of the area, he said, he responded that he was within the U.S. zone, not on the Russian side, and that the Russians could not order them to leave.
At that point, he said, a Russian military ship joined in and issued similar orders.
“At this point, I’m going, ‘What’s going on here? Are we getting invaded?’” Captain Thomas said in an interview.
Weakness has consequences.
Maybe when the price of lobster jumps to $500 Lb. people will start to listen.
Jingpao Joe won’t listen. He’s Xi Ping Pong’s bitch. He kneels for Vlad Puto, too.
If Biden is Xi´s “bitch” and Vlad´s too, then why do they need to invade? And if they want to invade, why invade Alaska? I´m sure they´ve seen the map and know Canada is in there somewhere.
Schmucks!!!!!!!!
Alaska is in close proximity and it’s remote enough to supply a Ching Chong Ivan excuse, putz, although I’,m sure Hawaii will be next.
And Trudeau is a total pussy but he’s no Bendover Biden.
I can smell your stinky mangina from here Dickcorn. Tranny.
When weakness oozes out of every pore of this administration, I’m not sure what else we were to expect. They’re like children playing at government except they’re not innocent, just stupid…and it’s this stupidity that puts the nation in peril.
I do not deny stupidity is a part of the plan, but I see intentional evil as the true explanation. The stupid people are simply naive or willing “bank tellers” of evil – doing their job and following orders.
Exactly! You took the words right out of my mouth!
They’re also evil. Extremely evil.
They’re already here. Two “Chinese American” sailors just got arrested for espionage. They’re actually traitorous spies and I’m surprised they even got arrested. Beijing Biden probably wants to blow them.
It makes me wonder how many of the chinks I see in America are spies. Half the ones in universities, I’m sure.
It would not be unnatural for them to be spies for their home countries.
We are the wealthiest nation on the planet. We have lots of valuable land and natural resources. Our people no longer have any feeling for their heritage, their ancestors or even their own families (with some notable exceptions).
Our government has encouraged a “knowledge” economy and makes almost nothing at home – not even our medicines (China makes most of them!) or the components for technology and weapons. Our knowledge is stolen and given away and exported around the world in exchange for great riches for people like Obama and Biden and many others.
Since when has human nature changed? We have won no war since Vietnam. Can we expect them not to conquer us by any means necessary, ESPECIALLY when we will do it for them ourselves?
They want all that Oil and their not stopped by Greenpeace Fossil Fuel Ships or Eco_Freak idiots
“Do as they say”?? SERIOUSLY??? I can’t just imagine the FIRST TWO WORDS that PRESIDENT TRUMP would tell them followed by AND FIND OUT!!
An interesting article revealing some facts I had been unaware of.
The problem, Mr Greenfield, with your position is that you perceive America as the ‘good guy’ and Russia and China as the ‘bad guys – basically.
For years, the USA and its ‘allies’ have gone around the world starting wars and causing trouble – imposing its will on other countries (LGBTQ+ agenda as a key issue – even under Trump). America has ships and aircraft frequently buzzing past the borders of Russia and China. But somehow when these countries do the same thing it’s a problem. How about America withdraw its troops from all around the world, cease stirring up trouble and mind their own business? Nevertheless, these things must take place.
The fact is, America and its allies *must* weaken. Israel will, in the not too distant future, be unable to depend on the fleshly arm of the United States.
NATO is apparently very weak, and it will not be surprising if Europe is engulfed in a war fairly soon – many Islamic nations, as well as Russia and China, may well soon be in a position to launch an attack on Europe. Europe has millions of Mohammedans waiting for their chance. Big trouble is coming. What comes out of the ashes is another matter…
Misbehavior by American hubris was documented in the Ugly American most of a lifetime ago.
That American Institutions worked to destabilize Guatemala and Iran is [ or was ] alternately denied and justified.
That the appearance, here, of a manipulated crisis strikes the attentive in the similarity to color revolutions which distressed the membership of the Soviet system to dissolution.
Now it seems our turn.
When I was a kid, Eugene Burdick lived a couple doors down from me when he was writing some of his books. I didn’t know it at the time. Loved his books.
America should stand up for freedom and liberty.