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Patrol spots Chinese, Russian naval ships
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Posted By: NorthernDog, 9/26/2022 11:42:27 PM

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A U.S. Coast Guard ship on routine patrol in the Bering Sea came across a guided missile cruiser from China, officials said Monday. But it turned out the cruiser wasn’t alone as it sailed about 86 miles (138 kilometers) north of Alaska’s Kiska Island, on Sept. 19. Two other Chinese naval ships and four Russian naval vessels, including a destroyer, were spotted in single formation, the patrol boat, known as a cutter called Kimball, discovered. The Honolulu-based Kimball, a 418-foot (127-meter) vessel, observed as the ships broke formation and dispersed. A C-130 Hercules provided air support for

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This is what happens when the Commander in Chief is asleep at the switch. Our enemies feel free to poke around.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: mean Gene 9/27/2022 12:00:17 AM (No. 1288704)
Look this up. Kiska Island is in the middle of the Bering Sea, and these ships were well beyond and three mile limit. This is a non-issue. Scare mongoring, if it is anything.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Heraclitus 9/27/2022 12:31:01 AM (No. 1288715)
I bet Sarah Palin can see those ships from her backyard. Trouble is that the Russian/USSR and Chinese regimes have historically been at odds (to one degree or another). Marshall Tito, commie leader of Yugoslavia during the Cold War, was the proverbial fly in the ointment of a solid Soviet Bloc opposed to Red China (not opposed ideologically). Leaders in the West looked anxiously for Tito to "side with" Red China in various disputes. I don't remember anyone explaining why Tito was such a "far right extremist" --just joking
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 9/27/2022 12:36:04 AM (No. 1288718)
Re #2, are you aware that Palin never uttered those words?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Avikingman 9/27/2022 1:00:27 AM (No. 1288731)
Satellites would have tracked them since they left port. The CG was there to make sure they behaved.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: skacmar 9/27/2022 6:31:21 AM (No. 1288783)
It was just a small incursion, so that's OK. Just ask Joe Biden.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: LanceLink1 9/27/2022 7:12:11 AM (No. 1288795)
Joe has bigger issues on his mind. Like the Atlanta Braves racist name and who's hair he's going to sniff today. And boy you should have seen the look on his face when he realized Matlock was a rerun.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: bpl40 9/27/2022 7:49:14 AM (No. 1288808)
This is a preplanned cat and mouse game intended to boost and polish the Democrats' defense readiness credentials before the Mid Terms. We are all being made fools of - once more!
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Reply 8 - Posted by: MDConservative 9/27/2022 9:10:42 AM (No. 1288870)
86 miles from Kiska Island...and about equidistant from Kamchatka (Russia) as Alaska. This was hardly an incursion. It was probably business as usual in these international waters. The Chinese were following in case the Russkies needed a tow.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: TLCary 9/27/2022 9:13:35 AM (No. 1288873)
You can see easily see Russia while standing in Alaska. It's only 2.4 miles. On a good day, a conversation could be had by yelling from one country to another. The world record is 10.5 miles. Why do people who don't get the joke from an old Saturday Night Live skit think it's a quote from history? And despite what Snopes says: Al Gore really said, (and defended the statement) "I invented the Internet". No joke.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: GoodDeal 9/27/2022 11:16:47 AM (No. 1289034)
They were probably crab fishing and didn't want to be on an episode of Deadliest Catch.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Lawsy0 9/27/2022 1:27:01 PM (No. 1289153)
Let's hear it for the COASTIES! Kudos, USCG.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: rochow 9/27/2022 10:10:49 PM (No. 1289628)
Perhaps the jackass in chief has been offering them Alaska if neither one of them is bothering him again. Might work. Allows him to play with his tongue again. He was wondering if he left it in England.
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