They are anticipating the attack to take place from the Med.
Moving ships out to sea to take up battle formations in preparation for strikes on the NATO ships involved, as they said they would.
Soooo,
The Russian military learned a lesson from our getting our asses handed to ourselves at Pearl Harbor?
As I just said on another thread.
Trump boasted what he was definitely going to do, but did not go ahead and do, and meanwhile Russia, Assad and Iran are preparing, and chuckling “Thanks Trump for the heads up”.
Now that they are out of port, we can sink these Russian Rust buckets with a great deal of sudden aplomb. The Russians think they can save themselves by exiting port? All they have done is enlarged the shooting gallery so more US sailors can join into the whole turkey shoot from beyond the Russian ship’s horizons.
I hope they high tail it all the way back to the Black Sea.
Female sniper grins.