Taking a recent page from a
Sweden’s playbook, a Democratic Senator in the United States has
begun spreading fears of phantom Russian submarines "dangerously
close" to US shores in an effort to secure increased military
funding to his constituents.
In October 2014, the Swedish
military sounded the alarm over a suspicious object in the waters off
Stockholm’s inner archipelago. Without evidence, this object was
declared to be a Russian submarine.
The paranoia spread to the US in
October 2015, as Pentagon officials expressed concern over the
possibility of Russian submarines severing underwater data cables in
the Atlantic.
"The United States
increasingly resembles Sweden, often believing that Russian
submarines are present in their territorial waters,"
Vladimir Komoyedov, head of the Russian State Duma’s defense
committee, told RIA Novosti at the time. "Although these data
cables exist, we will definitely not damage them."
Now the Connecticut Senator and
Democrat, Chris Murphy, is reigniting the tired fearmongering
technique.
"No one is suggesting that
[Russian President Vladimir] Putin is contemplating a nuclear launch
against a NATO country, but it’s not clear how tethered to reality
Putin is," the senator remarked to reporters on Monday.
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