The Dutch roll off the Vacapes was brutal on that flat bottomed hog. Best stateroom I ever had in the Nav though! Excellent chow- our MS’s were trained at the culinary college in Norfolk!

Glad to see it’s still around. Doing stuff.

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Great post. The great epic story of the Russians continues.

My recommendation would be for our government to captalize on this great strat comm opportunity…call the Russians on their bluff. You know, since they are coming all this way to participate in “exercises” with VZ, maybe they could, umm, bring some much needed humanitarian supplies for the Carribean nations recently ravaged by three hurricanes (we get tired of being the only ones to do this all the time). That would be a mature, welcome to the global stage sort of, act.

Flit, your post is so full of lies and half truths that I don’t know where to start. I will say this though…it’s not all a conspiracy, really. Believe me…

AW1, thanks for that small bit of history. I had never heard of that. Wow.

In the old days, Soviet school children were indoctrinated with the fact that EVERY invader of Mother Russia had been punished, and that severely, except for one: The United States.

Virtually no Americans know of the expeditionary force we sent to Russia to support the White Russians, and of the American servicemen who still lie buried in Russian soil. See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Bear_Expedition

So for all those years, that distrust of America and the unmetered punishment for our actions has been festering in Russian memories.

As one who didn’t miss the Cold War days, the book to read was “The Russians” by Alexander. It seems the poor Slavs have been violated again and again throughout history and they building of the USSR was but a modern response to construct a buffer zone for the Motherland.

With the disintegration of that political entity, they see naked borders, avenues of approach for their enemies (think really paranoid), with no “no man’s land” (read other people’s soil) to fight on and prevent further defeats.

So, when the “opposition” sees everything through those filters, are they psychotic, or merely being proactive in caring for their “sovereign borders?”

The Russians need to grow up and join the world community and quit playing the (historical) victim.