Russian Coastal Missile Battery Exercise & a statement about this blog.

Below you see pics from the Russian Military Website showing "Crews of the coastal missile system "Bal" of the Pacific Fleet perform training firings"...good stuff and I'm glad that I've found a foreign website that is showing its military----this is the type of openness that the Pentagon is begging for with the Chinese----but I digress.  Fellow blogger American Mercenary pissed me off royally by accusing me of being a "useful idiot" because I posted news from a foreign, in the case in question, Russian news site.  If you've been following my blog for more than two minutes then you know I link to articles from around the world.  I sift through information that isn't "news" in the US so I can get different perspectives.  I allow conversations on the blog so that I can see how people from around the world view different military issues.  IF you want the talking points from just a US view this isn't the blog for you.  IF you want to believe that the US continues without rivals ...friendly, frenemies and enemies then this is not the blog for you.  If you're the type that can view the landscape as it is, recognize that the US is losing its military edge, its foreign policy is an absolute mess and certain concepts/procurements being put forth by military leadership is steaming piles of shit then welcome aboard!