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obama and our government let russian and iran isis cuba
our enimies in to destore our nation
while our military sat back and watched
our nation is gone
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he gave them nukes
opened our boaders to kill the american people russian subs was setting upt hey nukes in cuba while obama played games with america
Pentagon: Russian Spy Ship, Tug Operating Near U.S.
Pentagon: Russian Spy Ship, Tug Operating Near U.S.
Ships near nuclear submarine base at Kings Bay, Ga.
A Russian intelligence-gathering
ship has been operating off the U.S. East Coast and near the Gulf of
Mexico for the past month, the Pentagon said Thursday.
“We are aware that the Russian ships Viktor Leonov and Nikolay Chiker
are currently operating in waters that are beyond U.S. territorial seas
but near Cuba,” said Lt. Col. Tom Crosson, a Pentagon spokesman. “We
respect the freedom of all nations, as reflected in international law,
to operate military vessels beyond the territorial seas of other
nations.”
The Leonov is an intelligence gathering ship outfitted with high-tech
electronic spying gear. The Chiker is an ocean-going naval tug that has
been accompanying the spy ship on its mission.
Pentagon officials suspect the ships were part of a spying operation
since March against the U.S. nuclear missile submarine base at Kings
Bay, Ga. and other U.S. military facilities
Both ships were detected operating off the coast of Florida near the
U.S. Naval Station Mayport, Fla., which is south of the Naval Submarine
Base Kings Bay.
The Russian intelligence gathering coincides with heightened tensions
between the United States and Russia over Moscow’s recent military
annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea.
An official said it is possible that the electronic spying is related
to watching U.S. nuclear missile submarines as part of a Russian
nuclear exercise.
According to Russian military press reports, some 10,000 Russian
troops and 1,000 pieces of military equipment of the Strategic Missile
Forces took part in an exercise April 17 to 19—coinciding with the
transit of one of the ships, the Chiker, to Cuba from the coast off
northern Florida on April 19.
“The exercises will test the cohesiveness and skills of units and
commands in the process of alerting and the achievement of training
objectives under various circumstances and in any time of the day,”
Russian defense spokesman told Interfax.
The Chiker also is known to support submarines and is equipped with lift capability for servicing Russian submarines.
U.S. officials said in 2012 a Russian Akula attack submarine was
detected operating near the East Coast. The Navy denied the sub sailed
undetected in the Gulf of Mexico.
Crosson declined to comment further on the Russian naval activities.
“It wouldn’t be appropriate for me to talk about the operations of
non-U.S. vessels operating beyond U.S. territorial seas,” he said.
According to military enthusiast websites, the Leonov is a
Vishnya-class medium intelligence ship home ported in Severomorsk and is
part of the Kola Peninsula naval forces.
The ship was commissioned in 1988.
The ships are designed for signals and communications intelligence
gathering through an array of ship-borne sensors. It also is equipped
with two 30-millimeter guns and anti-aircraft missiles.
Wire services reports indicated the Leonov docked in Havana in February and March, and again this month.
Cuban missile crisis part two? Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Thursday, August 2, 2012
A report out of Pravda quotes President Vladimir Putin
as saying that Russia has moved strategic nuclear missiles to Cuba in
response to the United States’ continuing efforts to encircle Russia in
Eastern Europe.
The article, written by Lyuba Lulko, explains how Russia is reviving its military operations in Vietnam, Cuba and the Seychelles.
In October 2001, President Vladimir Putin announced that
the Lourdes radio-electronic center on the island had been shut down as
a “gift” to President George W. Bush on the basis of promises given by
Bush that the U.S. missile defense system would never be deployed in
Eastern Europe.
“The Russian Federation has fulfilled all terms of
the agreement. And even more. I shut down not only the Cuban Lourdes but
also Kamran in Vietnam. I shut them down because I gave my word of
honor. I, like a man, has kept my word. What have the Americans done?
The Americans are not responsible for their own words. It is no secret
that in recent years, the U.S. created a buffer zone around Russia,
involving in this process not only the countries of Central Europe, but
also the Baltic states, Ukraine and the Caucasus. The only response to
this could be an asymmetric expansion of the Russian military presence
abroad, particularly in Cuba,” the report quotes Putin as saying.
“With the full consent of the Cuban leadership, on
May 11 of this year, our country has not only resumed work in the
electronic center of Lourdes, but also placed the latest mobile
strategic nuclear missiles “Oak” on the island. They did not want to do
it the amicable way, now let them deal with this,” added Putin.
According to the report, Cuba, which was angered by
the original decision to shut down the radio-electronic center, has
agreed to allow Russia to locate the missiles on Cuban territory because
of its fears over new U.S. military bases in Colombia.
Whether the quotes attributed to Putin are accurate
or not remains to be seen. They appear nowhere outside of the original
Pravda piece.
Once the primary mouthpiece of the Soviet Communist
Party, Pravda’s influence has now declined rapidly. The online version
is managed by former journalists who worked for the original newspaper
but other than that the two versions are separate entities.
Speculation that Russia was re-building its nuclear infrastructure in preparation for a potential future conflict came with the news that 5,000 new nuclear bomb shelters were being constructed in Moscow to be completed by the end of 2012.
Officials justified the move by saying they wanted
the entire population of Moscow to be able to reach a nuclear bomb
shelter within minutes. China has also built huge underground bomb
shelters, outpacing the United States whose bomb shelters from the cold
war era still remain as they were at the time or have been
decommissioned.
The prospect of Russia moving nuclear missiles to
Cuba obviously harks back to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, which marked
the closest moment that the world came to World War III and a potential
nuclear holocaust.
Given the gravity of Putin’s alleged statements,
don’t expect to wait too long for Russian authorities to deny the quotes
featured in the Pravda report.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com.
He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular
fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly New
sobama set up america while our nations leaders stld by and watched now we are all going to die
Romney: Obama stopped missile defense shield 'as a gift to Russia'
By Katie Sanders on Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 at 5:27 p.m.
President Barack Obama mocked Mitt Romney during the 2012 campaign for calling Russia "our No. 1 geopolitical foe."
Now, as the country’s relationship with Russia worsens over Ukraine,
Romney is getting the chance to take a few political swipes himself.
Romney appeared on CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday and said
Obama has been naive about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intentions
all along. Romney said Putin has blocked Iran from harsher sanctions,
stood with dictators in Syria and North Korea, and provided Edward
Snowden a safe haven.
Romney said he would have handled things differently.
"For instance, you reconsider putting in our missile defense system
back into the Czech Republic and Poland, as we once planned," Romney
said of steps he’d take if he were in the White House. "And as you
recall, we pulled that out as a gift to Russia."
PunditFact has heard several Republican politicians and pundits bring up the missile defense system in recent weeks, so we wanted to look back into the program and why it was scrapped. The missile defense system
The missile defense issue represented the first significant break
from President George W. Bush administration policy in Obama’s first
year in office, so it attracted a lot of attention.
Bush, taking advice from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, pushed for an initiative
to install 10 interceptor missiles on the ground in Poland and an
advanced radar system in the Czech Republic to fend long-range missiles
from Iran.
American officials saw the Europe-based plan as improving their
ability to deflect long-range missiles launched by Iran (not Russia)to
Europe or the U.S while strengthening military partnerships with
countries in Eastern Europe. Some interceptors had already been built on
America’s West Coast to protect against nuclear attacks from North
Korea. The interceptors in Europe would not be ready until at least
2017, Gates later wrote.
The interceptors couldn’t do much against Russia’s nuclear weapons,
experts said, but Russia still saw them as a threat to its arsenal and
NATO-Russia cooperation. Russian defense minister Sergei Ivanov told a
Belarus newspaper in 2006, "The choice of location for the deployment of
those systems is dubious, to put it mildly," according to the New York Times.
Enter Obama, who explained he supported the missile shield to Fox News host Bill O’Reilly during the 2008 campaign. He gave himself wiggle room, however,by saying, "I want to make sure it works, which is actually one of the problems we've got." He ordered a review.
Washington’s relationship with Moscow was icy at the time following
Russia’s war with Georgia. Obama took office in 2009 talking about
hitting the "reset" button with Russia.
Then, three years after Bush announced his missile defense proposal, Obama changed course. On Sept. 17, 2009, Obama
announced that the United States would pursue a new missile defense
policy focused on knocking out short- and medium-range missiles from
sites closer to Iran.
Russian concerns about the previous program were "entirely unfounded," Obama said.
"Our clear and consistent focus has been the threat posed by Iran's
ballistic missile program, and that continues to be our focus and the
basis of the program that we're announcing today," Obama said. "In
confronting that threat, we welcome Russians' cooperation to bring its
missile defense capabilities into a broader defense of our common
strategic interests, even as we continue to -- we continue our shared
efforts to end Iran's illicit nuclear program." A ‘gift’ to Russia?
Russians cheered the decision, thoughRussianofficials said they didn’t promise anything in return. Putin called Obama’s move on the missile defense shield "correct and brave."
Bush allies and congressional Republicans thought Obama caved.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind. (who is now
governor of Indiana), and Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, released statements
along the lines of Obama is soft and let down American allies. Pundits
like John Bolton, whom Bush appointed as ambassador to the United
Nations, said Russia and Iran came away as "big winners" in a "bad day for American national security."
Meanwhile, Israel and most NATO countries in Western Europe approved
of the move, news stories show, as they thought the missile system
provoked Russia. Initial reactions from Polish and Czech leaders were not thrilled.
Obama delegated explaining the decision to an interesting source:
Gates, the same official who recommended the missile defense plan to
Bush in 2006 to combat the growing threat of Iranian ballistic missiles.
Gates explained why he urged Obama to change course in a 2009 New York Times op-ed and in his 2014 book Duty, in which he described the new strategy as necessary due to changing times, technology and threats. (And in which he said some not-so-nice things about Obama.)
"It was neither the first nor last time under Obama that I was used
to provide political cover, but it was okay in this instance since I
sincerely believed the new program was better -- more in accord with the
political realities in Europe and more effective against the emerging
Iranian threat," he wrote.
Gates wrote that Defense Department officials realized the Iranian
government was putting more stock into building short- and medium-range
missiles over long-range ones. The agency wanted to uproot the old plan
to better counteract that threat, and the new tactic Gates and Joint
Chiefs of Staff recommended to Obama was not only cheaper, but the
sea-based missiles could be more easily and quickly produced.
"While there certainly were some in the State Department and the
White House who believed the third site in Europe was incompatible with
the Russian ‘reset,’ we in Defense did not," Gates wrote in Duty. "Making the Russians happy wasn’t exactly on my to-do list."
Lost in the GOP fury, Gates wrote, was that Russians found Obama’s
new approach to be an even bigger problem than the Bush-era plan as they
worried about future adjustments that could make the short- and
medium-range missiles a bigger threat to Russia.
"How ironic that U.S. critics of the new approach had portrayed it as
a big concession to the Russians," Gates wrote. "It would have been
nice to hear a critic in Washington -- just once in my career -- say, Well I got that wrong."
Lance Janda, chairman of the Department of History and Government at
Cameron University, told us Romney’s comments are partially accurate.
Yes, Obama ended the missile shield planned in Poland and Czech
Republic, but the U.S. will address the ballistic missile threat with Aegis missiles in Eastern Europe by 2018, he said by email.
"While our decision to cancel the sites in 2009 eased tensions with
Russia -- which DEEPLY opposed the sites -- we also had legitimate
security reasons for not moving forward and in that sense it's not like
we were really doing Putin a ‘favor,’ " Janda said. "And we're certainly
not leaving Poland or the Czech Republic exposed. They're covered by
the rest of NATO and will get the Aegis system ... soon."
We reached out to Romney through CBS and a press contact on MittRomney.com but did not hear back. Our ruling
Romney said, the United States stopped plans to build a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe "as a gift to Russia."
Romney’s impression about Obama’s decision to end the program is
certainly shared by GOP politicians and pundits, and Obama took office
with a vow to reset relations with Russia. Russia found Bush’s missile
defense program in neighboring countries offensive and was pleased to
see it go (though Gates asserts they dislike the new policy more).
But Romney’s comments do not reflect the whole story. Gates, the Bush
official who recommended the plan in 2006, acknowledged he drove the
change in policy because of improved American intelligence of what the
Iranians were working on -- not solely to be nice to the Russians.
Plus, new defense systems are still planned.
We rate the claim Half True.
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