MicroWave@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoUS Navy nuclear ballistic missile submarine surfaces off Norway in unusual flex as 'Doomsday' plane flies overheadwww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1128arrow-down1external-linkUS Navy nuclear ballistic missile submarine surfaces off Norway in unusual flex as 'Doomsday' plane flies overheadwww.businessinsider.comMicroWave@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-text
A US Navy nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine surfaced in the Norwegian Sea. It was accompanied by a guided-missile cruiser and two naval aircraft. The show of force came weeks after Russia sent a submarine and naval fleet to Cuba.
minus-squareaodhsishaj@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·5 months agoDirect response to this https://www.newsweek.com/us-navy-monitoring-russian-warships-submarine-near-miami-1914616 and not much more than saber rattling
minus-squaremassacre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·5 months agoSpeaking of saber rattling, I found this quote mildly amusing: The flex notably comes amid persistent tensions with Russia, which has been rattling the nuclear saber lately “lately”? I mean, if you’re saying repetetive nuclear threats for 2 years + since starting a war with Ukraine, then sure?
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoEven Yeltsin made a few nuclear threats in his time. And frankly those threats were more meaningful, with all the bravado of today Yeltsin’s poor depressive Russia was much stronger militarily than the one we have.
minus-squareaodhsishaj@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·5 months agoThe Media doesn’t really allow itself a long memory in the current news cycle
Direct response to this https://www.newsweek.com/us-navy-monitoring-russian-warships-submarine-near-miami-1914616 and not much more than saber rattling
Speaking of saber rattling, I found this quote mildly amusing:
“lately”? I mean, if you’re saying repetetive nuclear threats for 2 years + since starting a war with Ukraine, then sure?
Even Yeltsin made a few nuclear threats in his time.
And frankly those threats were more meaningful, with all the bravado of today Yeltsin’s poor depressive Russia was much stronger militarily than the one we have.
The Media doesn’t really allow itself a long memory in the current news cycle