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Related: About this forumAir Force Secretary Deborah Jones calls Russia the ‘biggest threat’ to US security
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/air-force-secretary-deborah-jones-calls-russia-the-biggest-threat-to-us-security/Air Force Secretary Deborah Jones calls Russia the biggest threat to US security
International Business Times
08 Jul 2015 at 23:05 ET
U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah Jones said on Wednesday that she considers Russia to be the biggest threat to American national security, according to Reuters. Tensions have risen recently in light of what Washington views as an increasingly confrontational Kremlin.
"I do consider Russia to be the biggest threat, James told Reuters after a series of meetings and visits with European allies, including Poland. The U.S. is urging its NATO allies to commit to spend 2 percent of their gross domestic products on the defense, though the countries doing so have been slow to make the commitment. This is no time to in any way signal a lack of resolve in the face of these Russian actions.
Russia has been seen as an increasingly aggressive force in the region since the uprising in Ukraine. Putin has announced the expansion of his countrys intercontinental ballistic missile capacity as well, and there have been a string of close encounters between NATO aircraft and Russian aircraft in what is suspected to be a threat from Putin to western countries. Russia is also reportedly developing multipurpose missile launchers that it will install onto ships in the Russian Navy. The new launchers will be able to shoot different types of missiles from the same launcher tube.
In response, the United States recently threatened to send the top American F-22 fighter jets to the region to keep the Kremlin threat in line.
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Russia? Really?
ISIL
Middle East exploding
Pivot to Asia
A forever AUMF
I think the chickenshit hawks are the biggest threat.
SamKnause
(13,107 posts)The Pentagon, The Military Brass, Wall Street, CEO's,
Lobbyists, and our revolving door government is the biggest
threats to the citizens of the U.S. and sadly many other countries.
djean111
(14,255 posts)fight each other for our money.
And, yeah, some people sure do want to start some more wars.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)How many wars are WE in now? How many countries are we currently bombing?
How many foreign bases are we up now?
Didn't we just send troops to 3 countries bordering Russia?
And RUSSIA is a threat????
Give me a freaking break!
The REAL threat is the MIC and their corporate lords wanting more money!
To hell with humanity!
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)sounds so much like the inflatable soviet threat doll that was rolled out each year in the past at budget time .
unhappycamper
(60,364 posts)We need more ships, aircraft, spacecraft, more drones, more precision weapons, more .........
When you buy UNFINISHED aircraft carriers to the tune of $13.9 billion dollars it's getting tough for the MIC to claim they need more money.
The Navy is building 1 ~ 2 Virginia-class submarines for $$7 ~ $9 billion dollars each. (They are also bitching that Ohio-class subs need to be replaced).
One of the cheapest ships we have built over the last ten years is a Coast Guard cutter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Cutter
Name: Legend-class National Security Cutter
Preceded by: Hamilton-class cutter
Cost: $684m(average), $735m(FY13 ship)[
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)equipment, but much of what we have is more than effective and probably doesn't need to be replaced with "the newest gee whiz, really won't work in any event, not really state of the art" designs.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)We are rotting from within.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)The enemy of my enemy is my friend