Posted on 04/14/2021 12:53:29 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Moscow — Russia warned the United States on Tuesday against sending warships to the Black Sea, urging American forces to stay away from the annexed Crimean peninsula "for their own good" as the situation along Ukraine's border caused increasing concern in the West. The U.S. Secretary of State, meeting with Ukrainian and NATO officials in Brussels, made it clear that the Biden administration, along with its allies in Europe, has Ukraine's back and considers Russia's ongoing military buildup in the region "very provocative."
The Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Friday that Washington had informed Ankara that two U.S. warships would pass through Turkish waters this week to be deployed in the Black Sea. The deployment would come amid a significant escalation of the conflict in eastern Ukraine between Russian-backed separatists and Ukraine's forces, which have U.S. and European support.
Hostilities first flared in 2014 when Russia unilaterally annexed Crimea — a peninsula that sticks out into the Black Sea and is home to a Russian navy base — away from Ukraine, drawing condemnation from the Western world and a series of sanctions.
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They never stopped anything other than a small Russian force (well-equipped). They never had to face a couple thousand tanks, dozens of battleships, and over 80,000 troops with air support.Ukraine stopped elite Russian forces from taking Mariupol and Putin been fake massing forces since.
This is why Putin and Xi helped facilitate the election steal. The U.S. is now weaker in every respect, just the way our enemies like it. And when the teenage-brained laughing hyena takes over for SlowJoe (soon), the sharks will be circling even tighter.
I think Putin knows Obama’s running the show and how he operates....Obama would love nothing better than having a war he can manage while sitting in his office chair hiding behind Biden and this with zero accountability.
I am not sure how many we have willing to fight for this nation now. Unfortunately, that’s the sad truth.
Joe Biden is not my leader. I certainly don’t wish obama well. Seems the libs are the first to protest wars and they’re usually the ones responsible for us getting in them.
We have no business sending ships into the Black Sea. Tha’s no different than Russia sending ship to the Gulf of Mexico.
They’re back to regime change.
Tyulpan 240mm heavy mortars means they are getting ready to crush the cities.
You ain’t kidding, these things are insane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djVrJsr0stE
Agree 100%
We are not doing so...we just cancelled notification of our intent to transit....
Ukraine was a corrupt Russian satellite for at least several centuries, until 2014, when the CIA and George Soros decided it would be a corrupt US/NATO satellite. To cement the deal, the new Junta in Kiev made sure lots of $$$ was distributed among DC elites, first of all, the Biden crime family.
My guess is that they move to take everything east of the Dnieper River, maybe the southern coast line, including Odesa...then strangle them...
Can’t be very large warships if they’re traversing the Volga-Don canal.
I think the only way to show Putin we mean business is to send Rachel Levine over there to straighten him out.
Well, at least Putin would be laughing so hard he might forget about it.
Possibly a big mistake.
Conquer a big chunk of the Ukraine and they insurgency on their hands.
They are not, I think it was mentioned that they could carry thousands of special forces troops.
Over ten landing ships. Their capacity: 500 Marines, 16 helicopters Kamov Ka-27 or Ka-52K 50 vehicles.
Most of Eastern Ukraine is pro-Moscow. Those Ukrs are not even real Ukrainian...they are Russian...flloded the zone with them decades ago.
Probably coordinating the attack with China, when they go for Taiwan.
Good preparatory work on the part of the Russians. The Ukraine should done ethnic cleansing to get rid of them when had a better president.
But, in that case, the Ukraine is totally screwed. They can’t stop the Russians, we can’t get forces there to stop the Russians, and there is really no reason for us to try.
“They’re back to regime change.”
It’s all part of Putin’s plan to cobble together a Greater Russia comprised of ethnic Russians in parts of the former USSR. Crimea was the first at bat, Eastern Ukraine is on deck, and parts of the Baltics are “in the hole” as we used to say during my baseball-playing days. If this plan sounds vaguely simiar to Hitler’s concept of Greater Germany in the run-up to WWII, you are correct.
Russia should stay away from Ukraine too.
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