When US shows weakness, Russia and China show up

Russia and China conducted joint naval operations spitting distance off the coast of Alaska this week in a "highly provocative" show of force that triggered a US military response and angry glances from US Rear Admiral Rachel Levine.

A total of eleven Russian and Chinese vessels approached the coast of the Aleutian Islands earlier this week near the maritime boundary the US shares with Russia. Luckily the vessels did not enter US waters because that might have triggered a response by Rear Admiral Rachel Levine along with other US military leaders such as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

The ships have already left the area and were followed by four US destroyers and P-8 Poseidon aircraft.

“It is a historical first,” Brent Sadler, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a retired Navy captain, told the outlet. “Given the context of the war in Ukraine and tensions around Taiwan, this move is highly provocative.”

It appears that our enemies have become emboldened by a president who can't even walk up a flight of stairs without taking a header, and who cannot even remember why he was walking up stairs to begin with, and a military that is more concerned with equity than competence.

Rear Admiral Rachel Levine

The exact time and location of the embarrassingly near invasion have not been made public, and information about the event is still being declassified.

Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan (R) confirmed the incursion took place “within the last few days,” and that while the US military had a strong response, such an incident was unprecedented.

“First, this is unprecedented, not just for Alaska, but for America to have 11 warships jointly being operated by the Chinese and Russians — who are increasingly working together — essentially doing freedom of navigation and navigation operations incursions into Alaska’s area,” Sullivan told KTUU.

Sullivan, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has repeatedly asked military leaders to increase the assets available to defend Alaska but Rear Admiral Rachel Levine is holding back until all military personnel have had their Covid shots.

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