To: rktman
Russia’s forfeiting of Turkey’s permission to transit the Bosporus Straits practically negates the value of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, Russia’s only warm water naval port and commercial seaport, and devastates the Crimea’s merchant marine economy.
9 posted on
03/18/2014 10:05:16 AM PDT by
WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX
No way Turkey wants Russia in control the entire northern half of the Black Sea. Putin has troops in Kherson and seems to be thinking about taking everything from Crimea to Moldova.
17 posted on
03/18/2014 10:11:52 AM PDT by
lodi90
To: WhiskeyX
We have a winner: now would be a good time to clean Assad's clock and get the Russian fleet out of the Med also.
Oh, but I assumed someone in the insane clown posse running DC has a strategic thought in their heads.
34 posted on
03/18/2014 10:44:59 AM PDT by
pierrem15
(Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
To: WhiskeyX
Looks like that could be a reason for Russia to go and kick some Turkish butt—maybe demand Hagia Sophia be turned into an Orthodox Church again. This is all hot air—I wonder how much Obama paid for this show of force from Turkey. Worry not all of this will blow over in a year—unless something really bad happens in Ukraine.
To: WhiskeyX
"Russias forfeiting of Turkeys permission to transit the Bosporus Straits practically negates the value of Russias Black Sea Fleet, Russias only warm water naval port and commercial seaport, and devastates the Crimeas merchant marine economy."
Yes, and the Bosphorus would be easy to block. Very tight, slow navigation in places there.
113 posted on
03/18/2014 8:57:59 PM PDT by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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