US Releases Photos and Video Showing ‘Tense’ Interaction Between US Plane and Russian Jet Over Baltic Sea
New photos released by United States European Command (EUCOM) show an Su-27 less than ten meters from a US surveillance aircraft, in one of just several close brushes between Russian and NATO forces to occur in the tense theater in the past several days. “A US RC-135U flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea was intercepted by a Russian … Continue reading
‘Provocative Turn’ Made By US Spy Plane Toward Russian Fighter Jet Over Baltic Sea
Lately there seems to be more and more of these potentially risky interactions that are quietly dismissed. The problem is that it could take only one of these “small” incidents to start something big! RT reports: Moscow said a US spy plane flying toward the Russian border made a “provocative turn” toward a fighter jet, which had been scrambled for … Continue reading
Putin to Oliver Stone on ‘Hot War’ Between Russia & US, ‘Nobody Would Survive’
No country on earth would survive should the world’s most powerful nuclear states unleash their atomic weapons, Vladimir Putin has said. His remarks form part of a series of interviews with American film director Oliver Stone. The question of whether the human race would survive a potential global nuclear war has tormented the minds of generations, and indeed Stone, who … Continue reading
Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election Revealed by Top-Secret NSA Report
RUSSIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained by The Intercept. The top-secret National Security Agency document, which was provided anonymously to The Intercept and independently authenticated, analyzes … Continue reading
Special Counsel Investigating Donald Trump’s Son-in-Law Jared Kushner’s Contacts with Russia
Former FBI director Robert S. Mueller III is overseeing the FBI investigation as a special counsel. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s contacts with Russian interlocutors during the transition may be examined by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) as part of its ongoing inquiry into alleged meddling by Kremlin in the 2016 US presidential election, media reports said. Mr. … Continue reading
UK Risks Being ‘Wiped off the Map with Nuclear Counterstrike’ – Warns Russian Senator
The UK, which recently said it could launch a preemptive nuclear strike “in the most extreme circumstances,” runs the risk of being “wiped off the face of the Earth,” the deputy head of a Russian upper house committee said. “The statement made by UK’s Defense Minister Michael Fallon calls for a harsh response and I’m not afraid of going too … Continue reading
Trump Says Russia Supporting “Very Bad Man” Assad and Blames Putin for Situation in Syria
US President Donald Trump blamed the current situation in Syria on Moscow’s support for country’s President Bashar Assad, calling the Syrian leader “an animal,” in an exclusive interview with Fox Business on Wednesday. “If Russia didn’t go in and back this animal [Assad], you wouldn’t have a problem right now,” Trump said. He stressed that Russian President Vladimir Putin was … Continue reading
US has ‘No Defense’ Against Russian Cruise Missiles – STRATCOM Chief
NATO and the United States have “no defense” against land-based cruise missiles if Russia deploys them in any quantity, the chief of US Strategic Command told senators, arguing the US must respond to Russian threat “from the position of strength.” Appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday to report on STRATCOM programs, Air Force General John E. Hyten … Continue reading
Immunity for Info. Says Trump’s Fired Security Adviser
President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has discussed giving testimony in investigations of potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, his lawyer says. “General Flynn certainly has a story to tell, and he very much wants to tell it, should the circumstances permit,” a statement from lawyer Robert Kelner said. Mr Kelner said no “reasonable person” … Continue reading
Did You Know? Soviet Scientists Developed Secret Plans to Control the Climate
Researchers at a St. Petersburg archive have discovered never-before-seen and never-implemented plans by Soviet engineers to change the climate across vast areas of the Soviet Union. The plans, found in the archive of Gosplan, the agency responsible for central economic planning in the Soviet Union, include proposals to divert the channels of the mighty Ob and Amur rivers, with the … Continue reading
