{"id":8600,"date":"2015-10-07T12:20:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T17:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=8600"},"modified":"2015-10-07T12:20:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T17:20:16","slug":"7-times-the-u-s-almost-stumbled-into-war-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/07\/7-times-the-u-s-almost-stumbled-into-war-with-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Times the U.S. almost stumbled into War with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all of the shenanigans going on in Syria with Russia lately, I thought it prudent to review America’s history with this long time cold (and sometimes hot) enemy.-SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The bow of a Soviet Mirka II class light frigate (FFL 824) impacts the stern of the destroyer USS CARON (DD 970) as the American vessel exercises the right of free passage through the Soviet-claimed 12-mile territorial waters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In light of current events in places like the Ukraine and Syria, the risk\u00a0of America and Russia fighting a proxy war or even\u00a0a real war is growing. Here are seven other times when U.S. troops lined up opposite Russian troops:<\/p>\n

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  1. Russian and Americans shot each other in Korea<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In the Korean War, U.S. pilots were officially flying against Chinese and Korean pilots, but\u00a0they knew Soviets were in the mix<\/a>. In 1952, the number of Soviet personnel in Korea had\u00a0climbed to 26,000 counting both pilots and air defense soldiers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Both sides hid the fact that the Soviets were involved so that neither country was forced into a larger war. American forces didn\u2019t report hearing Russian voices on signal intercepts between Soviet fighters while the Russians put Chinese markings and uniforms on all of their forces.<\/p>\n

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    1. Russian anti-aircraft experts shot down U.S. planes in Vietnam<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Like in North Korea, Russia wanted to affect the outcome of a war America was in but they didn\u2019t want to accidentally create a new world war. So, they originally claimed that no Soviet troops were present, then said some military experts were sent, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 they finally admitted they\u00a0had deployed 3,000 troops to stop American air raids<\/a>.\u00a013 Russian soldiers<\/a>\u00a0were killed\u00a0by American bombers.<\/p>\n

      Read the Remainder at Real Clear Defense<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      With all of the shenanigans going on in Syria with Russia lately, I thought it prudent to review America’s history with this long time cold (and sometimes hot) enemy.-SF   In light of current events in places like the Ukraine and Syria, the risk\u00a0of America and Russia fighting a proxy war or even\u00a0a real war…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2280,74,2378,1286,2426,1898],"tags":[2424,2425,2427,2401,2428,2429],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}