Would It Actually Be The United States Of America Russia Would Attack Or Western Countries Much Closer?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4396068/Russia-ups-ante-Syria-with.html

I ask this because it is fine for America to act so gung-ho while their citizens can still sleep safely in their beds, just as they did during the two World Wars.

[emmie]

they didn't sleep safely in their beds during 2 world wars, what makes you think that. Many US servicemen and women died alongside our own troops during both wars, you should know that if you had fought in WW2.

I can't see Russia attacking the USA unless they want to start WW3, unless that's the aim.

[ummmm]

Emmie - I think he means that the USA weren't being bombed.

[Islay]

Pearl harbour?

[bednobs]

werent they? tell that to the people of hawaii

[emmie]

over 481 thousand Americans lost their lives in WW2.
so not a few one might say.

[anotheoldgit]

emmie

I didn't mean the fighting forces, I meant the innocent women & children, as they like to put it now days.

And I think you will find it was only Russian women who fought side by side with their men on the front line.

[emmie]

aog
it just seems as though you were making somewhat light of the US intervention during both wars, sorry if i misunderstood.

[anotheoldgit]

bednobs

/// werent they? tell that to the people of hawaii ///

Hawaii was not part of the USA, it only became a state in 1959.

[RandyMarsh]

number of US civilian causalities killed on US soil during WW2
5
None of them lived in Hawaii.

[emmie]

Wasn't Pearl Harbour a strategic US naval base, and its bombing in 1941 a turning point in WW2.

[Islay]

The Japanese developed kite and balloon bombs which detonated on the American mainland.
They you have the land under the American protectorate
Pacific Islands
Phillipenes
Guam
Wake Island
Midway
Aleutian Islands
And of course Hawaii

[ToraToraTora]

No one will attack anyone, calm down dears

[emmie]

TTT
that is what they said in WW1 and WW2 and look how they turned out.

[anotheoldgit]

Islay

Read my headline, none of those US protectorates are part of the United States of America.

And as for those Jap balloons.

/// On May 5, 1945, five children and local pastor Archie Mitchell's pregnant wife Elsie were killed as they played with the large paper balloon they'd spotted during a Sunday outing in the woods near Bly, Oregon—the only enemy-inflicted casualties on the U.S. mainland in the whole of World War II. ///

[anotheoldgit]

ToraToraTora

/// No one will attack anyone, calm down dears ///

They already have, that is what this thread is all about.

[ToraToraTora]

do you really think that Putin thinks Assad is anything other than the coackroach that the US thinks he is? Get with the program!

[anotheoldgit]

ToraToraTora

Can you read Putin's mind, because I must admit I can't, so having said that I would rather steer on the side of caution, than pretending that I can.

[Hopkirk]

In modern warfare the Russians wouldn't send their bombers, their hackers would just switch off our power stations

[ToraToraTora]

Putin is using the Plonker, they like having warm water facilities, but do you really think Putin would risk war with the West for the sniveling rat?

[Peter Pedant]

I thought in your view Trump was the best thing since well Brexit
I must read your posts more carefully
( when you arent sligging someone off that is!)

the whole of American Foreign Poiicy since 1945 has been that Russia will attac Eastern Europe - hence the american presence in Germany

and also hence the american snookiness when Russia tried to land missiles in Cuba in 1962

in my opinion