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Senator Klintsevich: If US crosses the boundary of the permissible, Russia will respond

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If the United States crosses the boundary of what is permitted, as Ukraine did in the Kerch Strait: Klintsevich named the conditions for Russia's response to American provocations

December 29, 2018

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Senator Franz Klintsevich commented on the frequent appearance of American reconnaissance aircraft in the sky next to the Russian military bases in Syria, off the coast of the Crimea, in the Mediterranean, where Russian ships doing fire practice. In his opinion, this is unlikely to last long as the Russian Defence Ministry will respond. In addition, these actions are associated with greatly inflated ego of the Americans, according to Klintsevich.

If the United States crosses the boundary of what is permitted, as Ukraine did in the Kerch Strait: Klintsevich named the conditions for Russia's response to American provocations

Member of the Committee on Defense and Security of the Federation Council, Franz Klintsevich, commented on the activity of American aviation over the Mediterranean, which is closed to flight. Note that in this area the ships of the Russian Navy are conducting training fire.

Recall that a flight was made by an American P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft, which flew from the American airbase in Sicily. Note that such provocative flights were made previously. In particular, an American reconnaissance aircraft made a demonstration flight off the coast of the Crimea just last week. This incident did not go unnoticed either. Also, a US reconnaissance aircraft was spotted at the Hmeimim airbase in Syria, at the Russian Navy base in Tartus, Syria.

Franz Klintsevich stressed that such provocations by the United States will not be able to last forever with impunity. If they continue to violate the rules, they will receive a serious response from the Russian Defence Ministry, the parliamentarian said. In addition, Klintsevich suggested that all these actions of the United States are due to their "greatly inflated ego," writes FAN. Klintsevich described the US view of the whole world as follows: they believe that other countries will not be able to hold them accountable. But the fact that Americans are prepared to cross the line of what is permitted should not be ignored.

"If the Americans cross the boundary of the permissible, as Ukraine did in the Kerch Strait, when international and Russian laws are violated, this will be decisively stopped by our military," the senator said.

Author: Yekaterina Lazurnaya

2 Comments

lynette cracknell chaplin

1/1/2019 02:14:03 pm

Many people living in Sicily, like myself, are not happy about the Americans using their Sigonello base for war like purposes, I hope the senator's prediction will come true.

John McClain

1/2/2019 07:50:01 am

Having spent two decades studying the U.S.'s wars of choice, and our fiscal condition, we, America, have reached a "tipping point", where we must about-face, and renew all that we've impoverished, of our own states, culture, and Nation, and restore real money, and engage in true "free trade" if we would survive, however, none of these things can be acceptable to those who intend to rule the world.
They see all the same problems everyone else does, however they somehow still believe the world should remain "deathly afraid of them", even as we demonstrate our inability to deal with the "new realities", we knew were coming, tried to pursue, but spent our money, consumed bombs, bullets, and destruction, and have fallen far behind in electronics, applied sciences, and utterly failed to embrace the advances in "quantum mechanics, physics" for lack of resources, and at first, refusing to acknowledge we were in fact, really behind, on a most important issue, perhaps the issue of the next decades.
As a retired Marine, and a well studied historian, my worst fears are that our own "oligarchs" are unable to even imagine a world, they don't rule, and might contemplate MAD, just because it is becoming ever more evident, we've lost, and yet continue to pour debt down the hole we are lost in.
We can't continue, and the world has prepared for our fall for some three decades, investing ever more in gold, and establishing real banks, as opposed to our faux banks with zero capital. The world needs to get back its fair return on all the dollars it holds, so it can't just lock us out, however at some point, we either choose to join, as invited, and live with the fact we have to end our debt, but realizing, happily, as we actually address "principle" for the first time in decades, we will see the actual dollar value of debt go down, as our dollar increases in value, because we will have to capitalize, to stay level, much less, to grow. We will either choose to join, and have to follow "the world's generally accepted terms", or we must fail, there are no other choices.
Semper Fidelis,
John McClain
GySgt, USMC, ret.
Vanceboro, NC, USA

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