The profiles in courage just keep coming.
Three U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence said the highest levels of the Kremlin approved the aggressive actions of Russian military fighter jets against a U.S. military drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday.
The Russian jets dropped jet fuel on the MQ-9 Reaper, an unprecedented action, and two of the officials said the intelligence suggests the intent seemed to be to throw the drone off course or disable its surveillance capabilities.
It was “Russian leadership’s intention to be aggressive in the intercept,” said one of the officials.
Russia then followed that up by announcing it was going to retrieve the wreckage to count coup and gain whatever intel they liked.
Russia will attempt to retrieve and study the wreckage of the American MQ-9 drone that crashed into the Black Sea after being harassed by Russian fighter jets.
Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council, told Rossiya-1 TV on Wednesday that he was not certain the drone could be extricated from the water.
Gen. Milley is on the case though.
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a Pentagon briefing that the drone sank into water that’s 4,000-5,000 feet deep, making its recovery very difficult.
“It probably broke up. There’s probably not a lot to recover, frankly,” Milley said. “As far as the loss of anything of sensitive intelligence, etc., as normal we would take and we did take mitigating measures, so we’re quite confident that whatever was of value is no longer of value.”
Much like everything we left behind in Afghanistan and that drone the Iranians captured under Obama.
The Russians took down a U.S. drone. Now they’re going to try to recover it. Regardless of whether their efforts are successful, they’ve shown that they can attack us, get away with it and we’ll shrug. We won’t even try to interfere with their recovery operation.
It’s a familiar story and that is how wars start. Sometimes wars start through escalation, more often through shows of weakness.
Possibly an accomplished medium can be commissioned to contact General Patton on the other side to come and torment Milley in his dreams every night until he goes insane from the nightmares and commits suicide.
. This may be our only hope to save our nation.
Patton and/or the medium would have to worry about Arkancide.
Am I the only one who misses President Trump? He threatened to nuke Moscow right to Putin’s face.
Now there was a leader.
Maybe Dr. Jill will tell Joe to take Lindsey Graham’s advice and just shoot the Russian jets down when
the US sends “another drone up on the same flight path” (courtesy of Senator Cotton) to show Putin that we’re neither intimidated nor weak. Oh, but we are, Senator.
Milley is NOT in the chain of command.. His job is advisory only. Biteme, Lloyd Austin, or Sec of the AF have command authority.
And they’re exercising it so well. Reminds me of the good old days during the Obama administration when we let them keep an RQ-170 stealth drone (the “Beast of Kandihar”) that either wondered into Iran or was electronically hijacked by Iran and landed intact. Obama was given three plans to recover or destroy the drone and passed on all three. Worked out great. Iran copied it and produced numerous copies for use against its many enemies.
Groid Austin is at least as bad as Genital Milly.
This is the kind of treasonous ba$terde Sen. Graham and Mark Levin want to go to world war with as commandeers of our men and women in combat. To hell with Levin and Graham.
Levin wants nuclear war?
Yeah, maybe. These people are retards.
Do you remember when you were a kid in school.? You knew who the retards were.
“specially challenged..” No just dumb as fuck.
I thought they just disappeared but they obviously went into politics.
My uninformed reaction was that they probably don’t have enough assets in the area. The Russians probably have a lot of naval assets in the Black Sea area that USA can’t match.
An attempt to salvage the drone (if any) should not be announced without establishing a presence that could be grounds for demanding no interference. That is not likely to happen, not to mention not a goal.
Yeah, thy think they own the Black Sea. It’s beachfront property to them.
I think I’d prefer something in Indonesia or the Caribbean, but that’s just me.
Milley committed high treason during Trump. He should have been arrested and tried in a military court.
maybe Aunt Milliecan make one if his secret gossip girl calls to China for advice on this one.
He should’ve been hanged.
Yes, David Horowitz’s profile of Milley in FINAL BATTLE is beyond devastating.
Is it just me or is he a lookalike for John Goodman.
Except he isn’t a good man. 🙂
Patton would have had that Milley busted down to Private and on KP Peeling Potato’s
lol, good one Tex 🙂
Peeling potatoes. I saw that in a movie once. It made me glad I wasn’t in the military.