Military Review
Sign In Register

US Air Force General: Russia must think twice before starting a conflict with the US

55
The commander of the US Air Force in Europe told his subordinates and the media about the extent to which funding for “containment of Russia” in the Baltic States has expanded. According to General Volters (Wolters), the amount for the development of the air force component in the Baltic region has almost tripled since the beginning of 2017.


From the statement of the general, which he gave to the media during Royal International Air Tattoo - international show aviation military equipment:
These funds have increased our fighting capacity, our ability to respond to challenges. We want our servicemen, including pilots of the Air Force and Navy, to become even more professional than their predecessors.


What are the amounts of funding for the Eastern European component of the US Air Force?

If by the beginning of 2017, the amount was about 389 million dollars, now we are talking about $ 1,07 billion. In 2019, the US Congress plans to further increase funding for “protecting the airspace over the Baltic countries”. The increase will be about 100 million dollars.

US Air Force General: Russia must think twice before starting a conflict with the US


According to the American general, "this will make Russia think twice before starting to clash with the United States of America." Conflict over the Baltic countries?

General Walters:
We are creating an important infrastructure for the Air Force. This is an upgrade of flight control units. In the Baltic countries, we will be able to control every single aspect of the flight from takeoff to landing.


It is added that the growing financing goes, among other things, to the creation of “partner air bases” in Estonia, Latvia and “other countries along the Russian border”.
Photos used:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/airtattoo
Military Reviewin Yandex News
Military Reviewin Yandex Zen
55 comments
Ad

Subscribe to our Telegram channel, regularly additional information about the special operation in Ukraine, a large amount of information, videos, something that does not fall on the site: https://t.me/topwar_official

Information
Dear reader, to leave comments on the publication, you must sign in.
  1. universe1
    universe1 17 July 2018 12: 56
    +9
    This statement also works in the opposite direction. Or did someone start a war without thinking?
    1. Major Yurik
      Major Yurik 17 July 2018 13: 15
      +12
      Quote: universe1
      This statement also works in the opposite direction. Or did someone start a war without thinking?

      Give this crap "hours of the apocalypse"! tongue
      1. For example
        For example 17 July 2018 14: 55
        +6
        We have a proverb: measure seven times, cut one.
        And the genaral only offers to think twice. If you listened to such Generals, then America would not exist for a long time. wassat
  2. Baloo
    Baloo 17 July 2018 12: 57
    +12
    The US has a job to think about before fighting with Russia.
    1. Sergey39
      Sergey39 17 July 2018 13: 05
      +16
      Well, a hundred times is a bust. At least just to think.
    2. dauria
      dauria 18 July 2018 00: 35
      +2
      The US has a job to think about before fighting with Russia.



      But they are not going to. Strangle by expelling from all areas of influence, markets. Until we crawl ourselves. Do not begin the exchange of nuclear strikes because of Libya and Iraq, or Syria, or the Nord Stream. The Russian Federation will not live without foreign markets, not the USSR with CMEA and not China, we have few people. I didn’t think that I would survive - but hope only for the bite of the USA-China.
    3. 17085
      17085 18 July 2018 03: 04
      +2
      Quote: Balu
      The United States should think a hundred times before fighting with Russia.

      The most interesting thing is that modern military science, both in Russia and abroad, has long proved that the first to strike has more chances to win in a military confrontation. BUT. But, the possibility of delivering a WMD strike, in our case nuclear, breaks this whole scheme. That is why we live in a relatively independent state of the Russian Federation.
      Public speeches of all kinds of generals there can be put on a par with trips, of the well-known beggar and petitioner Petka, DAYTE DENEH!
  3. Dormidont
    Dormidont 17 July 2018 12: 59
    +4
    It is strange that he knows the word "think"
    1. Romka47
      Romka47 17 July 2018 13: 00
      +1
      he knows the word "must" and sculpts everything
    2. Lopatov
      Lopatov 17 July 2018 15: 43
      +3
      He just knows how to think. Each such base is one nuclear warhead that will not fly to the United States.
      1. prodi
        prodi 17 July 2018 18: 52
        +1
        Enough, enough for the metropolis! And, not necessarily everywhere nuclear. Well, the relish of such a large-scale disposal of their bases will act extremely beneficially on all sides
  4. Ivan Ivanov
    Ivan Ivanov 17 July 2018 13: 01
    0
    Is the converse apparently wrong?
    1. novel66
      novel66 17 July 2018 13: 03
      0
      they don’t even think about the opposite. for initially aggressors
  5. Corsair0304
    Corsair0304 17 July 2018 13: 03
    +1
    Come on?! Seriously?! A whole American general so greyhound to make such a statement laughing laughing laughing
    They are rams. I regret one thing - that the Americans are still increasing funding and pumping up their bases in close proximity to the borders of Russia.
  6. Terenin
    Terenin 17 July 2018 13: 05
    +13
    US Air Force General: Russia must think twice before starting a conflict with the US You, the US Air Force’s balabol, under Europe during the Second World War there was all of Europe with all its powers. How many times did we need to think to fight us with them or not? You’d better think over three times on what you, in the event of a conflict with Russia, will flee to America Yes
    1. barclay
      barclay 17 July 2018 13: 12
      +2
      Quote: Terenin
      you will fly off to America

      This time they will not save them. Times are different now.
      Even pretending that they are protecting the Baltic states, the desire for a conflict with Russia still climbs from them. It is from such idiots that a threat to world security emanates.
      Either this is dullness, or an infinite impudence that can be cooled only by a blow between the eyes.
      1. Russia
        Russia 17 July 2018 13: 47
        +4
        I remember earlier, in the sandbox, such conversations between friends of classmates in the kindergarten "Daisy" were. And that was cool. smile
        1. Terenin
          Terenin 17 July 2018 17: 52
          +6
          Quote: Rusland
          I remember earlier, in the sandbox, such conversations between friends of classmates in the kindergarten "Daisy" were.

          By the way, Vital, in the sandbox, just between the eyes, for arrogance, often received. Only parents had time to figure out why his child was "conceived". Here I agree with barclay.
          1. Russia
            Russia 17 July 2018 17: 58
            +5
            Everything is correct, Gene, as in Vysotsky: ... on his horns and between him ... smile
  7. aszzz888
    aszzz888 17 July 2018 13: 05
    +1
    According to the American general, "

    ... though a general, but brains like a jellyfish .... bully
    1. Baloo
      Baloo 17 July 2018 13: 09
      0
      Quote: aszzz888
      According to the American general, "

      ... though a general, but brains like a jellyfish .... bully

      In vain you offended the jellyfish. Yes
      1. aszzz888
        aszzz888 17 July 2018 13: 11
        +1
        Baloo (Baloo, just Baloo) Today, 13: 09 .. You should not have offended the jellyfish. yes

        ... well, maybe the simplest people will forgive me ... did not want to offend THEM ... wink
        1. Baloo
          Baloo 17 July 2018 13: 12
          0
          Quote: aszzz888
          Baloo (Baloo, just Baloo) Today, 13: 09 .. You should not have offended the jellyfish. yes

          ... well, maybe the simplest people will forgive me ... did not want to offend THEM ... wink

          Well, they don’t have time for us, they already got tired of global warming, like bears. Yes
  8. Zaurbek
    Zaurbek 17 July 2018 13: 09
    0
    This is absolutely true. The question is different - what will be the reaction of the United States and how should the Russian Federation think if any US satellite comes into conflict with the Russian Federation. Is this = conflict with the US or not? A bunch of satellites spread out along our borders as well.
    1. Russia
      Russia 17 July 2018 13: 50
      +3
      Jackal satellites, do not stick forward the American tail.
    2. voyaka uh
      voyaka uh 17 July 2018 22: 59
      +1
      The NATO Charter speaks of protecting NATO member countries in the event of an external attack. If the NATO country itself attacks anyone, then it is not required to help it. For example, Spain will start a war with ... Morocco / Algeria / Tunisia, for example. NATO will not help the Spaniards.
      1. not main
        not main 17 July 2018 23: 55
        0
        Quote: voyaka uh
        The NATO Charter speaks of protecting NATO member countries in the event of an external attack. If the NATO country itself attacks anyone, then it is not required to help it. For example, Spain will start a war with ... Morocco / Algeria / Tunisia, for example. NATO will not help the Spaniards.

        You know, although you know for sure. The charter is not a dogma, but a guide to action!
      2. Zaurbek
        Zaurbek 18 July 2018 07: 03
        0
        I mean, NATO has grown to large sizes and there are US partners outside of NATO. Being the same for everyone in the answer is very difficult.
  9. Anchonsha
    Anchonsha 17 July 2018 13: 09
    0
    Marazmatik, and also general. If we are going to do something, then we’ll cover a little further away, and then straight through home to the general general
  10. Going
    Going 17 July 2018 13: 32
    +2
    Conflict over the Baltic countries?



    Russia again will not come to war, let them fight with themselves.
  11. _Ugene_
    _Ugene_ 17 July 2018 13: 39
    0
    US Air Force General: Russia must think twice before starting a conflict with the US
    the theater of the absurd, they themselves thought up that Russia should attack someone, and now they themselves warn that they should think twice, it seems like crazy nonsense
  12. akudr48
    akudr48 17 July 2018 13: 39
    +4
    Our partners, to whom the Russian thieves, thanks to the government, sent 1 (500 trillion) dollars, are not one step behind the strategy of strangling Russia.

    In part, the United States does this because of its apparent inability to seriously fight China, so the main enemy in the person of Russia is shown to the public.

    Some naive people (Piontkovsky) say that the United States will take away the stolen and withdrawn from Russia by their sanction, and then they will also punish these thieves. It was not there. Frightened a little, and left alone. Why, if our thieves, together with the United States, continue to strangle the country, they work for a couple. And so it will continue, while our country will remain in the power of looters.
  13. Berkut24
    Berkut24 17 July 2018 13: 47
    +1
    Russia must think twice

    In Russia they think 7 times. And then they cut it off ...
  14. hhhhhhh
    hhhhhhh 17 July 2018 14: 02
    0
    What to think, shake is necessary.
  15. Strashila
    Strashila 17 July 2018 14: 20
    +1
    He obviously does not know our country ... two, this is an even number ... this is for the dead to whom he has ranked himself.
  16. Nikolaevich I
    Nikolaevich I 17 July 2018 14: 24
    +2
    American generals advise Russia to think .... what And they ... do not want to think or have forgotten how? fool Here Russia gets! More and think for America! request
  17. K-50
    K-50 17 July 2018 14: 34
    +1
    US Air Force General: Russia must think twice before starting a conflict with the US

    You might think that this is Russia pushing its borders toward NATO, and not vice versa. fool
    Poor, think about these words of our "guarantor": "if there is no Russia in the World, then why do we need such a World." angry
  18. aloleggry
    aloleggry 17 July 2018 14: 52
    0
    They think in Russia for so long. Advice out of place. As much as the Baltic States would not like us to capture them, they will not wait. The Baltic States do not need anyone for nothing. Associating an increase in funding with an increase in the combat readiness of troops is the lot of an accountant, not a general. Directly, these two values ​​are not connected in any way.
  19. maiman61
    maiman61 17 July 2018 15: 03
    +2
    Striped halfwit! Consult first with Napoleonoi and Hitler, and then with a broomstick!
  20. Fkjydjckfrgh
    Fkjydjckfrgh 17 July 2018 15: 30
    0
    Yes, it’s personally violet to me, Even if the Balts demand from the Russian Federation payment for NATO services (the same “Russe” will be lusted to attack them - such stern ones). They will become
  21. ASASHOKA
    ASASHOKA 17 July 2018 16: 28
    +1
    ... growing funding goes, including the creation of "partner air bases" in Estonia, Latvia and "other countries along the Russian border"

    Messrs. Russophobia, the people of the Baltic states are feeding “dough”, but for war plans, not for peace plans. The Baltic states will soon remain on the map only as a territory suitable for a bridgehead before the offensive, and the population will no longer be .... disperse to other countries and gain access. Yes, everything is going negatively and actively (like there is no war) - it’s impossible to live, there is no need to give birth, the outlook is not bright: there were almost 8 million people in the Baltic countries, now it has already moved to a little over 5 million (according to 2016 a year - in Latvia 1,96 million (in the USSR - 2680), in Lithuania 2,872 million (in the USSR - 3690), in Estonia 1,316 million (in the USSR - 1573)) ... What's next at such a pace?
  22. seregatara1969
    seregatara1969 17 July 2018 16: 32
    0
    "it will make Russia think twice before starting to conflict with the United States of America"

    measure seven times once cut-say the Russians
  23. Dormidont2
    Dormidont2 17 July 2018 17: 26
    0
    the closer the base of amers, the easier it is to hit Iskander with apples lol
    1. Doliva63
      Doliva63 17 July 2018 18: 48
      0
      Quote: Dormidont2
      the closer the base of amers, the easier it is to hit Iskander with apples lol

      On the other hand, the farther away the target for JBF, the more environmentally friendly for us. laughing
  24. Simon
    Simon 17 July 2018 18: 31
    0
    [i] According to the American general, "it will make Russia think twice before starting to conflict with the United States of America." Conflict over the Baltic countries?
    And if you threaten Russia, then in this case we won’t give you time to meditate, we’ll just “fry” everything! Like this! "Partners". It's just that you are too close, fraudulently, to our borders. Like this! negative I have the honor! soldier
  25. TAMBU
    TAMBU 17 July 2018 18: 42
    0
    the tank general will not agree with him)
  26. Simon
    Simon 17 July 2018 18: 44
    0
    Quote: ASASHOKA
    The Baltics will soon remain on the map only as a territory suitable for a bridgehead before the offensive, and the population will no longer be .... disperse to other countries and gain access.

    Dear! So the NATO just needs to free the Balts this territory! Without war, NATO will freely occupy it and will be at our borders. wink
  27. Old26
    Old26 17 July 2018 18: 50
    +1
    By the way, the general spoke by no means a stupid idea. It may be a little peremptory, as the Americans are accustomed, but nevertheless, the question will really be facing Russia (“think twice”) how to resolve the conflict. Either diplomatically, or using military force. And one has to think at the same time whether NATO will follow its charter, article 5 of this charter or not. Will it fit into a conflict with Russia, which can outgrow from a low-intensity conflict to a limited-nuclear one, or develop into a global one. Everyone will have to think, including Russia. Caps throw this time will not work. NATO has superiority in the same aviation, in manpower and equipment over Russia. And the only thing that holds back NATO is the presence of Russia's nuclear potential. And we will have to think whether the sheepskin is worth the hassle, whether it is worthwhile to deal with the Baltic countries with the risk of a nuclear war or not. Have to think. Although not only to us.
    But everyone is well aware that NATO itself has “frostbitten” NATO members who, in their Russophobia, can provoke such a conflict. The same Baltic countries (small, but smelly softer, like bedbugs), Poland with its ambition.

    Quote: Zaurbek
    This is absolutely true. The question is different - what will be the reaction of the United States and how should the Russian Federation think if any US satellite comes into conflict with the Russian Federation. Is this = conflict with the US or not? A bunch of satellites spread out along our borders as well.

    So I’m talking about this. Will NATO automatically enter into conflict according to Article 5 of the Charter, or will these mini-countries be a bargaining chip?

    Quote: Rusland
    Jackal satellites, do not stick forward the American tail.

    Yah. Poland in its Russophobia is even now ready to bend. Or the same Baltic countries that are ready to destroy the Russian army with their special forces. These just will bend and climb across the dad into the hell ....

    Quote: K-50
    "if Russia will not be in the World, then why do we need such a World."

    Are you seriously so naive that you believe that GDP will fulfill this threat ???? "And the whole world in ruin"?

    Quote: Dormidont2
    the closer the base of amers, the easier it is to hit Iskander with apples lol

    The converse is also possible. The closer the base to the borders of Russia, the easier it is to strike at the same Moscow and Leningrad with a flight time for missiles of 3-4 minutes ...
  28. Apollo
    Apollo 17 July 2018 19: 16
    +1
    The general is right. It’s time to put an end to moods in Russia. Or are we ready to fight to the last Russian? Given the Soviet (Russian) tactics of warfare, just such a finale is provided to us. And do not forget that the Americans live by collecting tribute from the colonies, and Russia (USSR) by what remains after they feed the colonies. Sad but true.
  29. NACC
    NACC 17 July 2018 19: 49
    0
    We need them to hell to attack them. Your problems are higher than the roof.
    1. Guillon
      Guillon 18 July 2018 23: 08
      0
      That's what they count on! And we’ll just deliver a counter strike to America in ruins !!! wassat Yes
  30. Alban
    Alban 17 July 2018 20: 16
    +1
    We want our military personnel, including Air Force and Navy pilots, to become even more professional than their predecessors.

    Well, the Luftwaffe, too, hoped for it in Russia during the Second World War .. And in the first couple of years they dominated this theater of action .. Even chasing after individual soldiers and especially civilians, shooting them out of the pulimets and richer .. In vain they did it .. soldier ! So gentlemen, consider all this and God forbid (the ocean will not save you for sure) .. Our mahr and swim to get to you if angry.
  31. Radical
    Radical 18 July 2018 01: 12
    0
    Quote: Balu
    The US has a job to think about before fighting with Russia.

    They have long thought - right after 1945, so they act on completely different schemes! sad
  32. vit357
    vit357 18 July 2018 17: 27
    0
    "According to General Wolters, the amount for the development of the Air Force component in the Baltic region has almost tripled since the beginning of 2017."
    Inspired: Madame Rosenfeld had three night pots before the revolution: gold, silver and crystal, but when the Bolsheviks arrived, she got right on the floor.
  33. Vasilij Pereira
    Vasilij Pereira 19 July 2018 18: 30
    0
    In my opinion, is this the general of finance, not the military? To allocate and absorb financial resources does not at all mean to really increase the combat readiness of troops. Even Kutuzov, having surrendered Moscow to Napoleon’s troops and, thus, turning these troops into a multinational gang of marauders, proved that finances (in different forms) are not always the guarantee of victory in the war. All these "multinational NATO forces", by their structure, are the same Napoleonic troops and will try to save their skins much more often than defeat in a real battle in a foreign land.