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2016-09-23 Science & Technology

Red Atlantic: Russia Could Choke Air, Sea Lanes To Europe

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-09-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Should've read some history before bombing Serbia or building NATO bases in Russian "near abroad". If you'd left them alone, they'd (probably) break up by now.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-23 03:42|| 2016-09-23 03:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like the Euros need a first class navy. Given the lead time to delivery, they better get hot on it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-09-23 07:46|| 2016-09-23 07:46|| Front Page Top

#3 This feels like the "fighting the last war" syndrome that I've heard about for years & years from people that seem to know.

Posted by AlanC 2016-09-23 08:34|| 2016-09-23 08:34|| Front Page Top

#4 The 80s called.

Back in the day, people would buy the board games Red Storm Rising and The Hunt for Red October; where your reinforcements from USA depended upon the battle for the Atlantic.

"The unobstructed crossing of the Atlantic to fight a war on the land mass in Europe, I think, is a thing of the past,"

Yeah, 1914. What is the quip? Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it....those who do are doomed to watch it happen again.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-09-23 10:38|| 2016-09-23 10:38|| Front Page Top

#5 The soviets are cheering for global warming to open the 'NorthEast' ice passage.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-09-23 11:58|| 2016-09-23 11:58|| Front Page Top

#6 The soviets are cheering for global warming to open the 'NorthEast' ice passage.

Russian scientists were among the first to point out that global warming had halted -- about a decade ago, if I recall correctly. It's hard to miss when your frozen north isn't thawing.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-09-23 19:14|| 2016-09-23 19:14|| Front Page Top

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