US Navy Admiral TERRIBLY worried ABOUT Russian submarines

10/27/2018

Our translation of an article from ridus.ru, with a foreword by Vince Dhimos.

Our only comment is this. Smile, be happy, Admiral. Thank the Lord that these subs are not in the hands of an enemy of the Western people.

The US and NATO have tried to make Russia an enemy, sanctioning the country on the basis of suspicions and even lies, and by unilaterally pulling out of the INF, blaming the pullout on the Russians. But they have failed.

Russia refuses to be an enemy. But it is nobody's fool and will build up its defences in case it is attacked,

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US Navy Admiral worried by Russian submarines

October 27, 201

Georgy Samsonov

Russia has a powerful submarine fleet and effective submarines, said the commander of the US Navy in Europe and Africa, Admiral James Foggo, who also heads the Joint Command of NATO forces in Naples.

He stressed that new-generation Russian submarines are a great danger and headache for NATO.

“The Russians have continued to invest in research, development and production of very efficient submarines, which are our most effective adversary,” the admiral told CNN.

He also drew attention to the number of submarines currently in service in the Russian Navy. According to him, there are currently about 40 combat submarines in Russia, with more than 20 of them concentrated in the Northern Fleet and can carry out their missions in the North Atlantic, as well as in the Arctic.

Foggo emphasized that Russia has increased the number of its submarines in the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean, which is a big problem for the leaders of the NATO countries.

“They have increased greatly in number, and operate in places where they have not acted before,” Foggo explained in an interview with the television channel.

Earlier, American media reported, citing their own sources in American intelligence, that by 2024 the Russian navy would receive eight submarines equipped with hypersonic missiles.

Last summer, the American edition of The National Interest immediately included three Russian submarines in the list of the most deadly deep-sea submersibles in the world.

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1 Comment

John McClain

10/28/2018 06:41:14 am

We, the U.S., set our sights on the ways of the Empire we threw off, and then realized we would end up allies with, having more in common with England, than every other Nation.
Britain began its assumption of Rome's aspirations from an island, so by Navy it impose its power, and even as we've been a "land with friendly borders, and two coasts, we've considered their defense best served by "a solid, well tuned offensive posture".
There has never been a time we haven't been able to use the sum total of our own resources, build sound coastal defense, sound advanced technology, and ignore the world at war, knowing we couldn't be successfully attacked. Under President Monroe, we chose to be an Empire, staking claim to pillaging South America as "our natural right", and by this, we had to have a forward deployed navy, offensive structure and infrastructure, and no one embarks as an "empire" and stops when they "have enough", the truth is, unless it rules the whole of the world, it always has more to conquer, and a "great enemy", great because fear drives as nothing else, and "being the last" is not a coveted position.
We threw off the trappings of a civil, federal Republic, at that point, and never turned back, avidly seeking war with Spain, adding our imposition to China, and we've become "the most complete empire" in modern history, without occupying the majority of what we control.
The other side to this coin is we occupy two former Nations, fully at war, with no control, nor prospect for it. We have put all our efforts to the accouterments of invasive war, little effort at diplomacy, and no efforts to attempt to consider the most likely outcome of a war, before we enter into it.
We, our "leaders" don't consider Russia's new age weapons, the effect of our warmongering, but charge they are trying to gain superiority, and eliminate the "MAD" structure, which kept us from a third world war. We have become so accustomed to ruling the world of trade, we've assumed we can do the same in every venue, and this is presumptuous to an extreme.
Admirals should be worried, we've expended our "capital" using weapons, and "blowing up the capital", while our "adversaries" have used diplomacy, our actions, and trade, to solidify their holdings, they've invested in technology for their military, and they've used it only in defense, and gained knowledge, improving it, by selling their weapons, training operators, and in using them in actual combat, learn their faults, weaknesses, and can upgrade, refine, all at the expense of "end users" who gain, live in profit, because they are successful defending their "capital".
We've used our subs as "provocateurs" for the whole of the "cold war" and haven't stopped, with the notion of preventing Russia from regaining its normal status as a first world nation, not even as an enemy. To do so, we've behaved like they've threatened us, and rather than confront us militarily, at great expense, and risk, they've been diplomatic, even when it failed, have turned away, always having another avenue ready to follow, knowing "how we are", and in this process, have come up with some new forms of weapon, great for retaliation, but not much good for offense.
"We" are now intimidated, because our provocateur standing has caused an un-anticipated response, and we aren't ready to counter it, not having considered merely "defending ourselves".
I have a good understanding of the ideation and philosophies of our two Nations because I'm a middling sized man, who lived two decades as a U.S. Marine, surrounded by men bigger than myself. I grew up having to defend myself, before that, and always used technology to enhance my capabilities.
As a Marine, I chose someone faster, to run with, a bigger Marine for "hand to hand combat training", a shorter, heavier Marine for "strength matching training", always considering I was "behind", regardless of reality.
The U.S. always trains, operates, and equips as if it is the 800 pound gorilla in the room, and uses up all its real capital, fighting when it could be trading, or working diplomatically, doing anything but attacking, and because of this, we are perpetually broke, perpetually behind, and always afraid.
Like every other "addict", if we would survive, we must break the addiction, end the paradigm, and return to ways we know are efficient and productive. Like every empire before us, we need to see the world will break us long before we rule it, and quit while we haven't yet fallen down the abyss.
God Bless you and your work,
Semper Fidelis,
John McClain
GySgt, USMC, ret.
Vanceboro, NC, USA

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