Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Isn’t it remarkable that the USN deploys ships worldwide year round but the only 2 Russian ship deployments since the fall of the Berlin Wall attract all the notice in the press? Why if it wasn’t for the fact that their submarines keep burning, sinking or blowing up, one would hardly have known there was a Russian navy these past 10 years.
Well, more on international politics on Friday!
Here’s to wishing you a great Thanksgiving!
And thanks for the training opportunity, Mr. Putin.
I´m curious, how many stops they made or how many ports they visited? what speed where they moving at?
They left their base maybe two months ago, what were the doing?
The speed listed for the Peter The Great is 32 knots or something, maybe they should post the speed of the tug boats not mentioned in the articles..
Also being a Venezuelan i am very, i mean very happy that we´ll now have nuclear reactors to power our oil based economy.
It´s sad but thank God i don´t live there any more.
And here I was thinking that our ASW guys had lost all their opportunities to hone the skillset.
Game on! (We’ll save ‘Fight’s on!’ for later)
We oughta have a caption contest on the pic.
My entry:
Yeeehaw! Fresh seal for the rest of the winter!
Diego
Their route from the Kola to the Caribbean was via Tripoli, Libya.
Cheers
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