USS Truxtun Passed Through The Bosphorus March 8, 2014. Photo: Ms. Eser Çelebiler, via Turkishnavy.net
USS Truxtun Passed Through The Bosphorus March 8, 2014. Photo: Ms. Eser Çelebiler, via Turkishnavy.net
That’s the least I’d do if I ran Russia. At least Mr. Putin will defend his country’s interests. Our Dear Leader can’t be bothered. He has lobster to gobble, “golf” to play and fundraising to do.
“According to the Montreux Convention, warships of countries which do not border the Black Sea can only stay in the waters for 21 days.”
US Truxtun has 19 days to go in the Black Sea.
We don’t even have a blue water navy.
Obama has hollowed out the US military to the point it can’t even put up a real show of force.
Anyway, Obama and his officials don’t believe in horses, muskets, sabers and cannons and all that 19th Century “hard power” stuff.
We’re having a showdown with the Bear and we’re holding the short end of the stick.
Any one who says with a straight face that Ukraine should ally itself with the West are fools. And Russia will demonstrate the West can’t be relied on in a crunch and will show Ukraine’s neophyte rulers they’re helpless without Russian protection.
The Crimeans know the West is unreliable; its just that the West Ukrainians persist in their delusions about the West. And their delusions, to put it mildly, won’t stop their country from being dismembered. No one in the West is going to die for Ukraine.