[MarMema]

ping!

[edpc]

NATO warship passages through Turkish straits raise eyebrows

It was Kaine's and it was only just his left.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

In late 1945 Stalin tried to get Turkey to block passage through the Bosporus to all states that do not border the black sea. When Turkey refused the Soviets made claims to Ardahan and Kars, two regions of Turkey that had been ruled by the Russian Empire from the early 19th century to 1917 and provided support to communist guerrilla organizations inside Turkey.

Truman sent a cruiser through the Bosporus in 1945 and provided Greece and Turkey with $400 million in military aid in 1947.

This is how Cold War I began.

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The German Lubeck is the last Bremen Class Frigate commissioned. The backbone of the German Navy. Lots of interesting armament according to Wikipedia.

Armament:
1 8 cell launch system
16 Sea Sparrow surface to air missiles
2 MK 49 launcher, 21 RAM each
2 quadruple Harpoon anti-ship missile launchers
1 OTO-Melara 76 mm dual-purpose gun
2 Rheinmetall Rh202 20 mm autocannons, will be replaced with Mauser MLG27 27 mm autocannons.
2 Mark 32 324 mm twin torpedo launchers, 8 DM4A1 or Mark 46 torpedo

[Rudder]

The move is not linked to the tensions over Russia's invasion of Georgia

This statement is bizarre and also obviously false.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

"The USS McFall is under way now, having taken on humanitarian supplies for the people of Georgia," the spokesman said.

How much tonnage of humanitarian aid can you carry on a tin can? A bag of Doritos and a six-pack?