Old Rocks
Diamond Member
Six different nations border the Black Sea. It does not belong to Russia.What a neutered bastard Trump is.
Russian jet flies within 5 feet of US Navy plane, Pentagon says - CNNPolitics
Why the fuck are we patrolling in the Black Sea?
What US interest is there?
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The Black Sea is like a Russian lake and you can learn a lot about their operations by observing what they do there.
Considering that we want to DEESCALATE tensions, not increase them, maybe we should not be patrolling in their "russian lake".
It is international waters and airspace. I was on one of the first ships to enter the Black Sea in decades back in the 1980s. We were up there when Yuri Andropov suddenly dropped dead and we deescalated by getting the heck out of Dodge.
In the 80s, the Black Sea was the coast of the Soviet Union, a Communist Superpower with an ideology calling for world conquest and a real chance at pulling it off.
Facing up to that was required.
Today, it is the coast of Russia, a much smaller and less dangerous nation, with not such ideology and no such chance.
Time to stop poking the Bear.
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