Posted on 04/15/2021 8:25:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The United States has cancelled the deployment of two warships to the Black Sea, Turkish diplomatic sources said on Wednesday, amid concerns over a Russian military build-up on Ukraine's borders.
Washington and NATO have been alarmed by the build-up near Ukraine and in Crimea, the peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Last week, Turkey said Washington would send two warships to the Black Sea, in a decision Russia called an unfriendly provocation.
The U.S. Embassy in Ankara had notified Turkey's foreign ministry of the move, the sources said, but did not provide a reason. Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency later reported that no new notices had been conveyed to Ankara for potential deployments at later dates.
U.S. officials said that Turkey may have misunderstood the initial notification and the deployment was never confirmed.
They said the United States frequently notifies Turkey for potential access to the Black Sea. But a request does not necessarily mean its ships will pass through, but rather ensures that if they choose to, they already have the required approval.
Russia, which warned Washington to stay far away from Crimea and its Black Sea coast, says the build-up is a three-week snap military drill to test combat readiness in response to what it calls threatening behaviour from NATO. It has said the exercise is due to wrap up within two weeks.
Ahead of the notification about U.S. warships, Russia's navy on Wednesday began a drill in the Black Sea that rehearsed firing at surface and air targets. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called on Moscow on Tuesday to end its troop build-up.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has called for the "worrying" developments in eastern Ukraine's Donbass region to come to an end.
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Well, that is two destroyers and a few hundred sailors out of the shooting gallery.
The Russian check must have cleared along with the arrival of a case of banana pudding.
Ahead of the notification about U.S. warships, Russia’s navy on Wednesday began a drill in the Black Sea that rehearsed firing at surface and air targets. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called on Moscow on Tuesday to end its troop build-up.
Meanwhile, our new SJW/PC Navy has been having sensitivity sessions and focus groups on how to be a Navy of any sex and POC’s.
Weakness invites aggression.
“Well, that is two destroyers and a few hundred sailors out of the shooting gallery.”
Good news for those sailors, their families and friends back in XiBiden land, formerly the USA!
This Black Sea fiasco is example number 1000 of how stupid the Biden administration is. By cancelling the deployment we appear weak and vacillating to the world.
But here’s the thing. American warships never should have been deployed to the Black Sea the first place! It would be like going over to your angry neighbor’s house and sitting on his front porch.
There’s no way that’s not a stupid idea. Either you’re going to get into an unnecessary fight with your neighbor, or you’re going to have to slink back home when he starts complaining.
This shows that the Cadaver-in-Chief really means business.
The US is in no state to fight a near-peer nation.
And there is nothing those DDs could have done to help Ukraine. At best they were there to serve as a tripwire - destroy them and the US goes to war with Russia. They were there to serve as sacrifices to the ambitions Biden’s puppeteers.
The persons who recommended sending them into the Black Sea need to be fired.
We don’t have enough illegals to run a ship
And a new no-show job for Hunter.
Biden: Make sure those Navy boys put up a big enough white flag on the backs of the ships. I want them visible.
China just learned they can take Tawain
Good. No business being there.
You put your left foot in,
You take your left foot out,
You do the hokey pokey
then forget what it’s about.
Yes, time for some shore leave in Taiwan.
Even J.B. eventually figured this one out. Although it took him a few days, and it only took me about 20 milliseconds.
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