The Western Journal
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Well, now the Russian Federation has done it: After it struck down a U.S. drone over the Black Sea this week, President Joe Biden’s administration sounds like it’s about to give Vladimir Putin a very bad performance review the next time he’s up for evaluation.
At least, that’s what one word from its messaging seems to indicate. As former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany noted, part of the Biden administration’s messaging response to the Tuesday downing involved one strange word: “unprofessional.”
What, was Putin wearing casual Friday clothes when he heard about the intercept, even though it was a Tuesday? Downloading video games on the work computer he used to order the attack? Using locker-room language in the congratulatory emails he sent to the Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet pilots who downed the drone?
In a tweet Wednesday, McEnany — now co-host of Fox News’ “Outnumbered” — shared a clip from that day’s show about the administration’s strange use of the word “unprofessional” to describe the shootdown, in which two Su-27 Flanker jets intercepted and downed an Air Force MQ-9 drone over the Black Sea.
A U.S. European Command news release said the incident occurred after one of the Russian aircraft collided with the drone.
In the media release, the command said the Russian pilots “conducted an unsafe and unprofessional intercept” with the drone.
According to the release, Air Force Gen. James Hecker said the MQ-9 “was conducting routine operations in international airspace when it was intercepted and hit by a Russian aircraft, resulting in a crash and complete loss of the MQ-9.”
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