Pooty poot dispute

Putin and his successor don't have any genuine home audience, at least not in the electoral sense. They're got the election wrapped up with about 70% of the electorate predicted to vote for the Gazprom guy.
 
That was exactly my point. The stuff is not there to defend against Russia proper. Now if you consider Iran a sattelite of Russia then there is some validity for Pootie poot to dispute.
 
If this continues why shouldn't we shoot one down? I understand the uproar that would cause, but I bet they would quit ******* with us. Russia needs to be put back into the place they were in after the cold war. They are becoming increasingly belligerent because they think they have been unfairly marginalized. A couple of incidents where we blast them for clearly violating or air space and buzzing our ships would show them that they are marginalized for a reason. As we increasingly put up with **** from Russia, China and Iran, we are letting the perception that we are weak become more pervasive. What if they decide that we are total pushovers and decide to actually do something? What happens if one of these times, the bomber does attack? By growing accustomed to bombers overflying our aircraft carriers, we make ourselves vulnerable to a worse than Pearl Harbor attack if it was coordinated enough. At least there they didn't get our carriers.
 

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