Russian attack sub detected near US East Coast

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...but Obama said he can be flexible with Russia. If it is an indicator that the US president is a traitor, I would not be surprised.
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He IS a traitor, and it is unfortunate that your countrymen have elected the traitor as its President, again. What kind of a US President bows down and almost kisses the hands of an Emir? Only a Mooslim does.
 

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Military Industrial complex is big business in USA, if you look carefully, they keep on looking for new enemy, specially after cold war. So any Russian actions is good for US Defence companies who pay heavy funds for election in USA.
 

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Neither article cited in this thread is a credible source.
CNN is covering this now. Nothing here about "safe harbor" nonsense.

Sierra-2 Russian submarine: Navy detects Russian Northern Fleet attack sub off U.S. East Coast

The U.S. Navy detected and tracked a Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine less than 300 miles from the southern U.S. East Coast last month, according to U.S. defense officials.

While the submarine did not enter U.S. territorial waters or follow any U.S. Navy ships, its arrival came while a Navy carrier strike group was training off Florida, according to defense officials who could not speak publicly because of the sensitivity of the issue.

The move by the Russians to put the ship close to the U.S. demonstrates its desire to ramp up deep-water patrolling by its submarine fleet -- something the Russian government has said it would do, officials said.
 

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Military Industrial complex is big business in USA, if you look carefully, they keep on looking for new enemy, specially after cold war. So any Russian actions is good for US Defence companies who pay heavy funds for election in USA.
Possibility:

General Dynamics needs orders.
They pay the Russians to pull off a stalking stunt, and get 'discovered.'
Now USN is alarmed.
Press is in frenzy.
General Dynamics gets new orders.
 

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There was another manufactured hoax about the Soviet Nuclear Powered Bomber, Myasishchev M-50.

Many people might instantly assume that this story is credible because it appeared in Aviation Week, a publication that has a well-deserved reputation for obtaining insider information on aviation and space projects. But what they should realize is that Aviation Week also has a well-deserved reputation for publishing poorly-researched articles about top secret aircraft programs that do not exist, such as the 1958 claims about a Soviet nuclear-powered bomber. In fact, the same author who wrote the Blackstar articles, William Scott, has written several previous articles about top secret aircraft that never existed. It is his specialty, and he repeats the same pattern in all of them.
Source: The Space Review: Six blind men in a zoo: Aviation Week’s mythical Blackstar (page 1)

Mark Lincoln | May 1, 2012
I remember the Aviation Week issue with drawings of six-engined bomber resembling the Bear. About four years later we were assailed with a drawing of the Bounder, except it was billed as a super-sonic nuclear powered bomber.

There was – and is – endless hype of impending threats none of which ever really happened.

There was no 'bomber gap', nor 'missile gap.' Reports of Soviet spaced based lasers in the late 1970s, the 'zap gap,' were just hype to justify buying more bombers, missiles, and star wars.

"The Window of Vulnerability" served to terrify Americans for decades, always receding into the future each year, ever ominous.

Senator 'Scoop', Jackson (D-Boeing) described the Cold War as a 'permanent jobs program.' So it was, and with China, Iran, and Korea as the new 'threat,' we will continue to justify what are by far the most expensive armed forces in the world.
Source: Michael Krepon • The Bomber Gap
 

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