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Trump Confronts Russia With the Fleet Obama ‘Sank’
FrontPage ^ | August 2, 2018 | Greenfield

Posted on 08/02/2018 6:55:42 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell

Trump Confronts Russia With the Fleet Obama ‘Sank’ What real power and national greatness look like. August 2, 2018 Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.

On October 1962, destroyers from the Second Fleet streamed out to intercept Russian vessels suspected of delivering missiles to Cuba. Under the shadow of DEFCON 2, Vice Admiral Alfred Ward, commander of the Second Fleet, watched over a blockade of Cuba. The Navy men putting Russian ships under their guns knew that they were the tip of the spear in what might at any moment become the next world war.

The Russians had ordered their ships to keep going. It was up to the Second Fleet to hold the line.

"Admiral, it looks as though this is up to the Navy," President Kennedy told Admiral Anderson.

“Mr. President,” the admiral replied, “the Navy will not let you down.”

On September 2011, under the leftist politico whose admirers tried to sell him as another JFK, the flag of the Second Fleet was taken down. The fleet that had taken point against the Russians was no more.

The justification for the disestablishment of the Second Fleet was the diminished threat from Russia. The Navy was being cut to pieces while Obama focused on boondoggles like the “Green Fleet”.

“Our Navy is smaller now than any time since 1917,” Mitt Romney had objected next year during a presidential debate. "We also have fewer horses and bayonets," Obama sneered, to the cheers of the media. "The question is not a game of Battleship where we're counting ships."

When Romney brought up the Russian threat, Obama sneered some more. "The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because, you know, the Cold War's been over for 20 years."

These days, Obama’s party is mired in a haze of Russian paranoia. But it was their leader who dismantled our first lines of defense and Trump who is restoring our military deterrence.

Seven years after Obama shuttered the Second Fleet, its flag is flying again. The fleet isn’t green any more, it is mean. And it will watch over the East Coast and the Atlantic to checkmate Russian subs.

The shutdown of the Second Fleet was part of Obama’s failed pivot to Asia which ended with a humiliating apology to China for flying a plane too close to one of the Communist dictatorship’s fake South China Sea islands. (Trump has since dispatched B-52s, outraging China, with no apology.)

That was December 2015.

On January 2016, the complete collapse of naval credibility led Iran to seize two United States Navy boats, steal classified information, hold their crews hostage and humiliate them on television.

Obama had forced the Navy to grovel to China. Why not Iran?

Instead of taking decisive action against this second Iran hostage crisis, the appeasement administration instead used it to spin the success of the Iran Deal. The humiliation of the Navy was complete.

But the humiliation of the United States Navy and the United States of America ended on Jan 20, 2017.

The restoration of the Second Fleet is an important step in the revival of America’s Navy. But the full scope of the harm Obama inflicted on our readiness will take generations of hard work to repair.

The USS Enterprise, the descendant of a fabled history stretching back to the American Revolution, which took part in the Cuban blockade, was scrapped by Obama. The Enterprise was one of six carriers scrapped by Obama who wasn’t interested in counting ships or horses and bayonets.

Or in fulfilling the congressional mandate to maintain at least eleven aircraft carriers at all times. Scrapping the USS Enterprise took us to ten even though 10 U.S. Code § 5062 specifically states, "The naval combat forces of the Navy shall include not less than 11 operational aircraft carriers."

Obama broke the law. He undermined our national security. And once again, he got away with it.


TOPICS: Cuba; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
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1 posted on 08/02/2018 6:55:42 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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2 posted on 08/02/2018 6:57:03 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Enterprise (CVN-65) has been decommissioned and defueled but hasn’t been scrapped.


3 posted on 08/02/2018 7:03:26 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Louis Foxwell

Just wow.


4 posted on 08/02/2018 7:04:00 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

My son was on the USS Kitty Hawk before it was scrapped.


5 posted on 08/02/2018 7:11:13 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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My son was on the USS Kitty Hawk before it was scrapped.

Kitty Hawk hasn't gone to the breakers yet either, but the Navy has announced she is to be scrapped.

6 posted on 08/02/2018 7:18:25 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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Obama was so “in the bag” for Islam, it was just astounding.

He was the “Shuck and Jive president, while our nation was being stripped of it’s assets.

The man brought terrorists into the White House, and appointed them to positions in our government.

He armed and funded two different terrorist groups.

Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood were his best buds when it came to Islamic fellow travelers.


7 posted on 08/02/2018 7:28:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Obama’s party is mired in a haze....

Barky's in a haze all right...


8 posted on 08/02/2018 7:34:40 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Here are two stories about people who are not as dumb as 0bama.

Man Taunts Bison at Yellowstone National park

Police: Man tried to steal plane for concert
Asked about his lack of training as a pilot, Zemarcuis Devon Scott, 18, allegedly told Texarkana, Ark., police that he didn't believe there was much more to the task than pushing buttons and pulling levers, ...


9 posted on 08/02/2018 7:37:17 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

1. The Enterprise was old. 50 years is a long tome for a steel ship to be at sea.
2. Congress was the one at fault for not authorizing a new carrier in time to replace the Big E.


10 posted on 08/02/2018 7:40:26 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The ONLY purpose for gun control is so that one group can force its will on a less powerful group.)
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To: Snickering Hound

CVN-65 is over 50 years old. It’s wore out. It needs to be replaced, not that Obama ever gave a crap about that.


11 posted on 08/02/2018 7:41:58 PM PDT by JamesP81 (Traitors are more dangerous than enemies. Vote and act accordingly.)
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To: JamesP81

Yep, the plankowners on the Big E are either dead or in their 70s.


12 posted on 08/02/2018 7:43:14 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The ONLY purpose for gun control is so that one group can force its will on a less powerful group.)
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CVN-65 is over 50 years old. It’s wore out. It needs to be replaced, not that Obama ever gave a crap about that.

CVN-65 and CV-63 hulls are still there.

It's just a question of funding if refurbing them would be faster than replacing them with Ford class CVN's that are having serious teething issues.

13 posted on 08/02/2018 7:49:57 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Louis Foxwell

BTTT.


14 posted on 08/02/2018 8:05:37 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Snickering Hound

The Kitty Hawk was old. She needed billions in upgrades and refurbishment. Replacement is a much better option.


15 posted on 08/02/2018 8:11:06 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The ONLY purpose for gun control is so that one group can force its will on a less powerful group.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
The Kitty Hawk was old. She needed billions in upgrades and refurbishment. Replacement is a much better option.

Rode hard and put up wet.

Problem is the Ford Class keeps getting design changes that pushes their commission dates back.

You could very well refurb Kitty Hawk and get it back in service while they're still getting the bugs out of the Fords.

Wouldn't be surprised if they're still trying to get the kinks out of the Ford's in the 2030s.

16 posted on 08/02/2018 8:17:25 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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17 posted on 08/02/2018 8:24:40 PM PDT by bitt (“we know not what course others may take, but as for me, Give me Liberty, or Give me Death”!)
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To: Louis Foxwell
“Our Navy is smaller now than any time since 1917,” Mitt Romney had objected next year during a presidential debate. "We also have fewer horses and bayonets," Obama sneered, to the cheers of the media. "The question is not a game of Battleship where we're counting ships.

I bet whoever fed him that line was very proud of herself. Possibly the same person who rigged the moderator to be Hussein's shill.

18 posted on 08/02/2018 8:25:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Everyday Putin has to look in the mirror and listen to his inner voice repeat what his advisors point out...

... U.S. President Donald Trump keeps his country together and successful when the media is allowed to work against him. When subordinate lawmakers work against him and when even the fundamental offices work against him.

And that’s GOT to p!ss Putin off something fierce.


19 posted on 08/02/2018 8:46:51 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: Blood of Tyrants

It depends. The latest Ford will cost as much as Canada’s entire military budget


20 posted on 08/02/2018 8:50:06 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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