Sure hope Oleg gets with the program

[nearmiss]

Don't make light of this. Two Russian bombers flew over a US Carrier the other day in a provocative manner. One did a fly over at abour 2,000 feet. Those kinds of behaviour are not good and are a bad sign of things to come.
I'm just hoping there will be no more incidents either way.

It's really all about politics isn't it? I mean we've had a great time on the Ubi boards and forums for the past 5+ years. Personally, I wouldn't want to alienenate myself with any readers. I have enjoyed reading other's opinions and how they think about the war and all. You could say, I just want to enjoy everyone and appreciate freedom to discuss things. I know we don't all see things the same way, but that is the cool part.

Someone kinda ragged on me above about being ignorant of the Russia role in the War. When we studied World History it was about the old world kinda stuff, not very much about WW2 and certainly nothing focused on Russia. WHen I was in college I took American History, and it naturally had more to do with things American. If I had been more into history of other countries it would certainly be different. Heck, like most students I took the required courses and took electives I was interested to take.

I don't know about "defensive missiles" in Poland, but I kinda got the idea it has more to do with protecting European countries from their own laid back attitudes of nuclear proliferation in Iran, Pakistan,etc. You make what you want about it, but Europeans ignoring Iran and Al Queda is a big mistake. The European appeasement strategy will not work long term with muslim extremists. Those dudes don't just hate Christians, they hate anyone that is not muslim. America has been taking care of Europe for 100+ years because of their own laid back attitudes about doing nothing.

If the Russia really believed America wanted to attack Russia why the heck didn't America do it after breaking the cold war. I'll tell you why, Americans don't want a war with Russia.

We wouldn't be in Iraq or Afghanistan right now if the extremists hadn't cost America billion of dollars and killed thousands of our people. People say the war is wrong, but they are ignoring the "FACT" extremists have and continue to kill American troops in Iraq. Americans are dying, and that's a fact. The extremists want to kill Americans and Iraq is their killing field.

Those extremists are not just Iraqi, they are from Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia and all over the middle east. America has provided a venue for their murder, which is bad... but who is better able to deal with the carnage than Americas soldiers.

Regardless, I may have gotten off the side abit in this posting. I sure don't want issues with Russians who I've come think of as "FRIENDS". I enjoy the IL2 and appreciate the accomplishments of Oleg and Soviet aviation. I don't want to go back to "distrust the Russians" and other negative thinking.

Currently, I'm interested for Oleg to finish his new work so we can all enjoy it. I would hate it, if the product was locked out of American markets. Enemies don't have much patience for each other, nor do they do business.