What the hell is Russia doing now?

[Batman]

This is a little unnerving. There's a bunch of chatter, but not a lot of concrete reports, that the U.S. military has gone to DEFCON 3 over massive and unusual military maneuvers in Russia in the past day or so. DEFCON 1 is nuclear war, DEFCON 2 is a heartbeat away from it, and DEFCON 3 is a heightened state of readiness.

SuperStation95 - TROUBLE: U.S. Sets "DEFCON 3" -- US to move forward with plans to attack Syrian President Assad and his forces; Russia Says it will "engage and destroy" anyone who tries!

DEFCONWarningSystem (@DEFCONWS) | Twitter

There was an incident earlier this week in Syria where Russian planes bombed U.S. backed rebels. U.S. planes came in and tried to contact them, but got no answer and the Russians left. When the U.S. planes left to refuel, the Russians came back and dropped some more bombs.
Hopefully just some saber-rattling, but this doesn't feel like a good start to the week.

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[Guy_Incognito]

Whatever the hell it wants.

 

[dixiehack]

Judging by the score against Wales, not much.

I'm sure BTE will be along with word from the Politburo shortly.

 

[Ace]

Does the U.S. military generally release its DEFCON status to radio station websites?

 

[Batman]

Does the U.S. military generally release its DEFCON status to radio station websites?

The Twitter feed I linked to (and this, its parent site: The DEFCON Warning System) apparently monitors this stuff. The radio station site just pulled it all together.
Maybe it's all hysterical, fear mongering bull****. I dunno.

 

[JohnHammond]

The Twitter feed I linked to (and this, its parent site: The DEFCON Warning System) apparently monitors this stuff. The radio station site just pulled it all together.
Maybe it's all hysterical, fear mongering bull****. I dunno.

No, you never post anything based on hysteria and fear. @@

 

[Songbird]

Putin just wants to see who's got bigger balls, and better election rhetoric, Hillary or The Don.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Between the economy collapsing and the entire Olympic team getting banned from Russia, Putin had to show the world he's still the manliest of men.

 

[dixiehack]

Does the U.S. military generally release its DEFCON status to radio station websites?

In the off season, when they aren't busy tracking Santa.

 

[YankeeFan]

So, we're at Orange Alert? @Baron Scicluna will be excited.

 

[Batman]

Yeah, this might not go down as my finest hour on SJ.com.

The story on the incident in Syria is legit, at least.

 

[Vombatus]

Yeah, this might not go down as my finest hour on SJ.com.

The story on the incident in Syria is legit, at least.

QFP.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

So, we're at Orange Alert? @Baron Scicluna will be excited.

Nah, orange would be the second level from the worst, which was red. Yellow was third, followed by green and blue.

I used to wonder what it would have taken for us to be a terror threat blue.

 

[SpeedTchr]

Nah, orange would be the second level from the worst, which was red. Yellow was third, followed by green and blue.

I used to wonder what it would have taken for us to be a terror threat blue.

I went to that level several times as a teen.

 

[SFIND]

I used to wonder what it would have taken for us to be a terror threat blue.

Everyone in the world on Soma.

 

[Killick]

FALSE: DEFCON Warning Level Escalated to 3

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Oh sure, that's what the guvmint wants you to think.

 

[Batman]

FALSE: DEFCON Warning Level Escalated to 3

Happens to the best of us once in a while?

 

[Stoney]

FALSE: DEFCON Warning Level Escalated to 3

Not the best of ideas to start threads about stories originating from "the felon-run conspiracy web site Superstation95."

 

[JohnHammond]

At least Batman has the decency in branching out from memes when posting fake news he thinks is real.