While Joe Biden lounges on the beach in dirty Delaware, China and Russia continue to mock us, by conducting a joint military exercise just off the coast of Alaska. This actually happened last weekend… Did you hear a peep about it from the media, or Joe Biden? Of course you didn’t. I thought Russia was such a threat to our democracy or something?
China and Russia conducted a joint naval operation near the coast of Alaska earlier this week in a “highly provocative” move amid the war in Ukraine that triggered a robust US military response.
Eleven Russian and Chinese ships neared the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska earlier this week near the maritime boundary Russia shares with the US, but the fleets never entered US waters, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The fleet of ships have since left, and were tailed by four US destroyers and P-8 Poseidon aircraft, officials confirmed to the newspaper.
“It is a historical first,” Brent Sadler, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a retired Navy captain, told the oulet. “Given the context of the war in Ukraine and tensions around Taiwan, this move is highly provocative.”