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McCaul raises specter of 'submarine warfare'
thehill.com ^ | July 20, 2014 | Elise Viebeck

Posted on 07/20/2014 1:15:50 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

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To: tet68

And our torpedoes would always hit the Russian submarines in the stern.


21 posted on 07/20/2014 2:18:15 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Uhm, nope.

They haven’t the numbers nor sufficiently fielded numbers of subs to make a dent in us and they are way behind us technologically.


22 posted on 07/20/2014 2:30:13 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Again, McCaul would be better off doing is sworn duty to his constituents and concentrating on the problems on this side of the ocean.
23 posted on 07/20/2014 2:31:34 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Cicero
During the Khrushchev era (I think around 1955) The Crimea was just another part of the Soviet Union. Khrushchev transferred the administration to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic at that time.

Previously, it had been a part of the Russian Soviet Republic. During the 1930's, Stalin had the ethnic Turks and Tatars from the Crimea exiled to central Asia and they were replaced by ethnic Russians. The Crimea had been conquered by Czarist Russia in the early eighteenth century.

24 posted on 07/20/2014 2:39:20 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: bgill

McCaul is adressing both our foreign enemies and our domestic illegal alien invasion. He is smart enough to know the problems are not mutually exclusive.


25 posted on 07/20/2014 2:47:01 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
a resurgence to regain the glory of the old days

Sure, why not? Who's to stop him, Obama?

26 posted on 07/20/2014 2:58:25 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

There are far too many warship submarines in the world, and with some countries being belligerent, it will not be long before somebody decides to “cull the herd”.

It won’t be very obvious because “plausible deniability” will be the name of the game. So the effort will be to conceal evidence by using depth, so that a target submarine will first be severely damaged at crush depth, and then be at too great a depth to recover or even investigate.


27 posted on 07/20/2014 3:19:46 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: RetiredArmy
We’d better not go back to the Cold War against the Soviets and Red China.

All we can do is delay it as long as possible. That is the best course. Would give us time to ramp back up. The UniParty however wants a cold war ASAP. They just want to be able to exercise the means and could care less about the ends. Means would include justification for US ground forces in many hotspots, persecution of internal dissidents, shutting down alternative media, etc.. We would go back to the days when all we had was one view point presented to us. Remember when all Russian woman were fat and ugly ?

28 posted on 07/20/2014 4:10:57 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Oh, yeah. Russia needs more submarines. That’s funny.


29 posted on 07/20/2014 4:12:01 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: RetiredArmy

not really, the Red team is just as bad of shape, they have some good units, but most divisions are conscript units with old equipment. We really need to put two brigades of heavy armor back in Europe, one in Germany and one in Poland, then the bluster of Putin would die down. We have a crap-load of armor sitting in storage that could easily be dusted off and shipped over and you can make decent privates in 6 months to a year to fill out the TOE.


30 posted on 07/20/2014 4:24:33 PM PDT by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: Cicero

The whole thing may have been a “whoops”” moment, same as our Navy perhaps shooting down flight 800.


31 posted on 07/20/2014 4:55:56 PM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: Mogger

It’s pretty impressive that we never had an accidental exchange of the big stuff. Yet.


32 posted on 07/20/2014 5:27:51 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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To: Cicero

In the state I live in if you give a gun to a gang banger and he kills someone you can be charged as an accessory to murder. Please explain his this situation is different.


33 posted on 07/20/2014 5:31:51 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: ClayinVA

But they have more troops than we do and do not care how many of them die to accomplish what they want to accomplish. Plus, the Red Chinese own most of America. They can simply call in the debt or refuse to buy any more of it. That will really put us in a mess. All created by LePunk Obama and his spending. The RINOpublicans are not much better.


34 posted on 07/21/2014 4:50:20 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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