Provoking Russia To War…She Just Can’t Stop!

Isn’t this imperial hubris and arrogance at it’s finest. America deploys her most formidable warplanes, while at the same time deploying warships, troops, radars, and tanks in a 1st strike arc around Russia, close to Russia’s borders. Now think about what her own response would be if Russia would do the same to her by moving SU-35’s, troops, radars, ABM systems, and warships to the US Mexican/ US Canadian borders ,while sanctioning America?

She would count all of these acts, and rightfully so, as an act of war and would immediately respond militarily, politically, and economically as would be her right and responsibility to protect her sovereignty. If this is the case, then how should Russia respond?

The Bible teaches us that America’s arrogance & hubris would lead to her downfall….”They have poisoned the Bible with their adding to and taking from the truth. Now their doom is in sight. It is their own work.

They command the sea with their powerful navies, parking them off the shores of other nations. They secure air bases on their soils to place their deadly bomb — carrying planes within easy striking distances of those whom they fear to be their enemies. Is this not the easy way to make enemies?

Is this the act of a real Christian, the followers of Jesus whom they preach came for the peace of mankind and to teach the sheathing of the sword and the turning of the other cheek?

Where is a good Christian among this race?

They love meddling in other people’s affairs. They are in every fight or war — it matters not with whom or where — but yet crying “Peace! Peace!” with every deadly weapon of war to provoke other nations to war.

Shall not the God of Peace and Justice deal with you and your troublemaking as He did with those before you?”-pg.169(tfoa)

‘We’re not here to provoke,’ say U.S. jet pilots on Putin’s doorstep

By William James

MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU AIR BASE, Romania (Reuters) – For the squadron of U.S. fighter pilots standing on the runway of an air base in Romania, the mission is clear: show that the United States is ready to flex its military muscles if needed, and don’t provoke the Russians.

Two advanced F-22 U.S. fighters flew to the base on the Black Sea on Monday for the first time since Washington beefed up military support for NATO’s eastern European allies, who say they are under pressure from an increasingly aggressive Russia.

The men behind the exercise, taking smartphone pictures of their planes and handing out badges and uniform patches to local Romanian crews, know their job is not to lock horns with President Vladimir Putin’s pilots, but to keep their NATO friends happy.

“We’re not here to provoke anybody, we’re here to work with our allies,” says Dan Barina, a 26-year-old pilot on his first trip to a region where tensions have risen markedly since Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Romania’s neighbor Ukraine two years ago.

But they also know that the risks of operating in the region are real.

This month, two Russian warplanes flew simulated close-quarters attack passes near a U.S. guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea.

“I guess you can watch the video and see for yourself how those intercepts are,” said Dan Naim, another F-22 pilot, smiling wryly as he chewed cinnamon-flavored gum on board a refueling plane accompanying the fighters.

“If you want to intercept people over international waters, we just want to encourage them to do that in a safe way.”

Knowing that their opponents may want to engage in a high-stakes mid-air staring contest with the West, how would the pilots handle an airborne encounter with a Russian jet?

“The type of missions we run generally are offensive-defensive types of mission. You’re looking to be cool, calm and collected,” said Rob Morgan, a short time after stepping out of the cockpit of his F-22 at the Romanian base.

“Our actions definitely do have greater consequences. We’re very, very careful with what we do. The mission planning that went into something like this was extensive.”

But, laughing, joking and poking around the overgrown cold-war-era Russian-made MiG-29 jets on display at the base, the pilots wear the responsibility of flying the frontier between Putin’s Russia and the West lightly.

“Until you’re in that situation, I don’t know if you really do know what it feels like,” said Barina – nicknamed ‘Scream’ because he reminds some of the figure in Edvard Munch’s expressionist painting.

“If it’s got to be done, it’s got to be done. I’m not sure I’d think about a whole lot else … It’s the job we all signed up for.”

(Reporting by William James; editing by Guy Faulconbridge and Kevin Liffey)

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Provoking Russia To War…She Just Can’t Stop!