Earlier this week, residents living along the eastern Connecticut and western Rhode Island shoreline — not to mention the eastern tip of Long Island — received a shot of panic when a sitting congressman took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to voice concerns over a Russian spy ship parked 30 miles off the mouth of the Thames River.
“Mr. Speaker, as we are sitting here in this Chamber, right now off the coast of Groton, Connecticut, 30 miles from the Groton Navy Sub Base, which is the oldest submarine base in America, there is a Russian spy ship, the Viktor Leonov, that is loitering — as was reported this morning from the Navy and news sources — off the coast, again, within the bare minimum of international waters,” U.S. Representative Joe Courtney, a Democrat and member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, said.
I was assigned to a VP (anti submarine patrol squadron - east coast) while in the Navy. Our missions were to keep tabs on Russian intelligence ships disguised as fishing trawlers and Russian submarines in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. The "trawlers" were easy to spot due to the antenna arrays and the subs were so noisy they were easy to track via our sophisticated electronic surveillance. International waters are a three mile coastal limit and nothing we are not doing over there. I view this as "posturing" by the Soviets and nothing to be concerned about.
Where have you people been they have done this for over sixty years, as we and other countries have done the same thing. The liberal left is only bringing it up to create a fake story about Trump and Russia.
Come on folks. If it were a worry we would have put them on the ocean floor in a heart beat.
ReplyDeletethey have been doing this for years. thanks sjd
ReplyDeleteThis has been happening for decades. Testing the perimeter. And the administration.
ReplyDeleteThey remain in international waters, so we just watch them. No reason to do otherwise.
If you want a real good laugh, check out the Russian navy.
ReplyDeleteI was assigned to a VP (anti submarine patrol squadron - east coast) while in the Navy. Our missions were to keep tabs on Russian intelligence ships disguised as fishing trawlers and Russian submarines in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. The "trawlers" were easy to spot due to the antenna arrays and the subs were so noisy they were easy to track via our sophisticated electronic surveillance. International waters are a three mile coastal limit and nothing we are not doing over there. I view this as "posturing" by the Soviets and nothing to be concerned about.
ReplyDeleteWe do the same thing all over the world. We can't do the same thing then complain when another country does it.
ReplyDeleteCourtney's 15 seconds (SECONDS) of fame are now over. More important items to address, like where I'm going for HH!!!!
ReplyDeleteNOTHING new with this...
ReplyDeleteWhere have you people been they have done this for over sixty years, as we and other countries have done the same thing. The liberal left is only bringing it up to create a fake story about Trump and Russia.
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