So our CRIMINAL U.S. Government is now allowing their buddies to enter American Waters. If General Tommy Jefferson of the Mesquite Militia, the protagonist of my novel, American Phoenix Rising knew this, I bet that he'd rip someone a new or extend their existing 'Plumber Crack'. You know, this thing ---> ( | )
An arch-conservative US website claimed
that a Russian nuclear sub has been patrolling the Gulf of Mexico undetected
for more than a month. The website laid the alleged blunder by the US Navy at
the feet of President Barack Obama.
The Washington Free Beacon website claimed
that a Russian Akula-class nuclear sub, loaded with cruise missiles, has been
patrolling near the US strategic nuclear submarine base at Kings Bay, Georgia,
the home base for eight of America’s nuclear-powered ballistic missile
submarines.
Armed with various types of torpedoes,
including those with nuclear warheads, anti-submarine-warfare missiles and
long-range (3,000 kilometers) nuclear cruise missiles, Akula-class subs are
capable of destroying both nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers.
The Republican-supporting website cited
unidentified American officials in alleging that the Russian sub went
undetected because President Obama, a Democrat, is preparing to cut the US
military budget by $487 billion in the next decade. America’s antisubmarine
defense systems were included on Obama’s list of proposed spending cuts.
The report alleges that powerful US
hydro-acoustic sensors deployed in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, supported
by powerful military satellites, were unable to detect a sub Russia has
deployed for the past two decades.
“It’s a confounding situation arising from
a lack of leadership in our dealings with Moscow,”
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told the Free Beacon. “While the president is
touting our supposed ‘reset’ in relations with Russia, Vladimir Putin is
actively working against American interests, whether it’s in Syria or here in
our own backyard.”
“Sending a nuclear-propelled submarine into
the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean region is another manifestation of President Putin
demonstrating that Russia is still a player on the world’s political-military
stage,” and that Russia was “showing the flag,” Naval
analyst and submarine warfare specialist Norman Polmar said to the Free Beacon.
The Washington Free Beacon exposed blasted
the Russian president as an “ex-KGB intelligence officer” who “wants
to restore elements of Russia’s Soviet Communist past,” and has adopted a
hardline policy towards Russian-US relations.
The last time Russian subs were supposedly
detected near US shores was in 2009, when the New York Times reported on two
Russian nuclear-powered assault submarines patrolling the Atlantic some 200
miles off the American coast. The Washington Free Beacon article, however,
gives the impression that Russian subs have had free reign over the Atlantic
throughout Barack Obama’s presidency.
The Free Beacon slammed the Obama
administration for its proposed military budget cuts, which scrapped plans for
the construction of 16 new warships through 2017, as well as plans to buy 10
advanced P-8 anti-submarine warfare patrol jets designed to detect submarines.
The Washington Free Beacon gave a detailed
account of Russian naval activity in the Caribbean, citing Cuba and Venezuela,
as well as the Nerpa Akula-class sub recently sold to India. The report also
mentioned future Russian plans to build dozens of submarines and aircraft
carriers.
The Free Beacon listed various possible
reasons for the Russian nuclear sub’s presence in the Gulf of Mexico, including
a pushback against US plans to deploy a missile defense system in Europe, and
Russia flexing its naval might in a bid to export Akula subs.