Putin playing a dangerous game.

[url]http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/16/politics/russian-jet-barrel-rolled-us-aircraft/index.html[/url]

Maybe we should do like Turkey and shoot these Russian jets down.

the wimp ain't gonna shoot nothing but working people.

[QUOTE=dragmerc;554672]the wimp ain't gonna shoot nothing but working people.[/QUOTE]

When push comes to shove the US Military will win the day. It's always been that way. The US Plane was an unarmed recon plane. While the Russian plane was a much smaller jet fighter that was most likely armed with a cannon and possibly air to air missiles.

The Baltic Sea does not belong to Russian and the Russian pilot was show boating and we will continue to fly over the Baltic Sea as we please. He didn't make the USA stop flying off the coast of Russia in international waters just as the Russian's fly bear bombers off the coast of NATO members including the USA. We too send fighter jets to intercept and escort the Russian Bears out of our areas of interest.

We don't own the international waters off our coast just as Russian does NOT own those same type of waters off their coast line.

The same applies to China which we continue to fly and sail though the area of the South China Sea (international waters) that is claimed by the Chinese. But no one else recognized the Chinese claim to those man made artificial islands in the Southern Parts of the South China Sea. Other countries claim some of those island too. Vietnam and the Philipines all claim some or parts of those reefs.

[QUOTE=Moveon;554674]When push comes to shove the US Military will win the day. It's always been that way. The US Plane was an unarmed recon plane. While the Russian plane was a much smaller jet fighter that was most likely armed with a cannon and possibly air to air missiles.

The Baltic Sea does not belong to Russian and the Russian pilot was show boating and we will continue to fly over the Baltic Sea as we please. He didn't make the USA stop flying off the coast of Russia in international waters just as the Russian's fly bear bombers off the coast of NATO members including the USA. We too send fighter jets to intercept and escort the Russian Bears out of our areas of interest.

We don't own the international waters off our coast just as Russian does NOT own those same type of waters off their coast line.

The same applies to China which we continue to fly and sail though the area of the South China Sea (international waters) that is claimed by the Chinese. But no one else recognized the Chinese claim to those man made artificial islands in the Southern Parts of the South China Sea. Other countries claim some of those island too. Vietnam and the Philipines all claim some or parts of those reefs.[/QUOTE]

Real presidents have dealt with this type of aggression for decades......

Obama is a lightweight........and is being treated like the chump , non leading SOB that he is.

It will be nice to get leadership once again, but I fear that ain't Hillary or the Dope Smoking socialist.

[QUOTE=GeoFisher;554699]Real presidents have dealt with this type of aggression for decades......

Obama is a lightweight........and is being treated like the chump , non leading SOB that he is.

It will be nice to get leadership once again, but I fear that ain't Hillary or the Dope Smoking socialist.[/QUOTE]

Tell us what you think Obama should do. So far all you said is that he is being treated like a Chump. But what does he have to do to actually please you?

1: Shoot down a Russian Jet in the Baltic Sea right next to the Russian Boarder. Well it's actually closer to Russia than the USA so that's more in their back yard than our. Should we shoot down the Russian planes that get too close to the USA boarders? Should Obama claim a 200 mile zone around our boarders and shoot down or destroy any Russian Plane or submarine that gets too close. Do we now have a 12 mile zone or is it 3 miles off the coasts. I know it's not 200 miles.

Maybe the captain should have shoot a missile at those Russian Jets in the Baltic Sea just to the NE of the Russian Boarders and then see what the Russians do next?

So far no one has been injured and we have not lost any naval assets or even had the paint on the destroyer/cruiser scratched. And I'm pretty sure that we had a few guns on the cruiser that were manually trained on those low flying Russian jets as the flew over the cruiser. We could have easily fired a missile or the 20 mm phenoix gun at those jets and brought them down. But then the Russians would just send more of them and they would be fully armed and angry and be going for blood not just goofing around and flying low over the cruiser. They probably would have destroyed the Cruiser and all the people on board would have been killed or captured by the Russian Navy. They probably outnumber or ships in this area as it's not that far from their coastline and it's thousands of miles away from the USA. I doubt that Regan could have done anything either. At least Obama is still sending our Navy into this area and we have not been scared out of the Baltic Sea. And we continue to sail though the South China Sea in defiance of China's claims to the area. We are not backing down.

[QUOTE=Moveon;554729]Tell us what you think Obama should do. So far all you said is that he is being treated like a Chump. But what does he have to do to actually please you?

1: Shoot down a Russian Jet in the Baltic Sea right next to the Russian Boarder. Well it's actually closer to Russia than the USA so that's more in their back yard than our. Should we shoot down the Russian planes that get too close to the USA boarders? Should Obama claim a 200 mile zone around our boarders and shoot down or destroy any Russian Plane or submarine that gets too close. Do we now have a 12 mile zone or is it 3 miles off the coasts. I know it's not 200 miles.

Maybe the captain should have shoot a missile at those Russian Jets in the Baltic Sea just to the NE of the Russian Boarders and then see what the Russians do next?

So far no one has been injured and we have not lost any naval assets or even had the paint on the destroyer/cruiser scratched. And I'm pretty sure that we had a few guns on the cruiser that were manually trained on those low flying Russian jets as the flew over the cruiser. We could have easily fired a missile or the 20 mm phenoix gun at those jets and brought them down. But then the Russians would just send more of them and they would be fully armed and angry and be going for blood not just goofing around and flying low over the cruiser. They probably would have destroyed the Cruiser and all the people on board would have been killed or captured by the Russian Navy. They probably outnumber or ships in this area as it's not that far from their coastline and it's thousands of miles away from the USA. I doubt that Regan could have done anything either. At least Obama is still sending our Navy into this area and we have not been scared out of the Baltic Sea. And we continue to sail though the South China Sea in defiance of China's claims to the area. We are not backing down.[/QUOTE]

Not this.....

[video=youtube;XsFR8DbSRQE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsFR8DbSRQE[/video]