Quote Originally Posted by birding View Post
What would the reaction have been if a Russian warship had been in the Gulf of Mexico, in international waters, with a Cuban helicopter on board just to even things up, close to where a US fleet was holding drills ?

The western press gets these stories from the US who do their best to vilify.
There are no details of just where the US ship was, like how close or far it was from Russian territorial waters
We now know that the US (spy ?) ship was close to where the Russians were holding drills. Could it be that the fly pasts were a deliberate "Piss off your getting to close"
Exactly. The ship was 100km off of Kalingrad. I wonder what the news stories would have been if it had been a Russian or Chinese ship 100km off of the coast of Miami? There would have been outrage if the merkins did not do fly overs, and probably a call to bomb the ship from the flag waving "dem ruskies" brigade.