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U.S. navy fleet will deploy to combat Russia's resurgence
The U.S. Navy’s Second Fleet will be sent to the North Atlantic Ocean again as the Pentagon plots ways to combat Russia’s revanchist tendencies.With a resurgent Russia, the U.S. announced Friday that it will re-establish a fleet of its Navy that it abolished nearly seven years ago as a cost-cutting measure. The U.S. Navy’s Second Fleet will be sent to the North Atlantic Ocean again, as the Pentagon plots ways to combat Russia’s revanchist tendencies. According to the Pentagon, the Second Fleet will now have operational and administrative control over ships, aircraft and landing forces on the East Coast and the northern Atlantic Ocean.
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Thank God both parties in Congress decided to throw an extra hundred billion dollars down the 'defense' spending rat hole this year. Otherwise we may not've been able to create new fleets to counter the existential threat posed by Russia, whose GDP runs somewhere between that of Croatia and Latvia. Suck it, Flint.