Posted on 10/26/2016 6:20:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Russia has withdrawn a request for three warships to dock at the Spanish port of Ceuta for refuelling, following concern among Nato allies.
The Spanish foreign ministry says the stopovers have now been cancelled.
Spain had been under pressure from Nato allies not to allow the refuelling of the Russian warships bound for Syria.
Russia's defence ministry later said no request had been sent for the main vessel, aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, to be refuelled in Ceuta.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Russia needs fleet oilers
A number of online dictionaries have “refuelling” with 2 Ls. I’m thinking maybe it’s the British spelling?
It seems that the USA and Europe are trying to precipitate a hot war with Russia.
After all, it was the Obama-Clinton administration that helped build Russia's military strength in the first place, with their horrible (for us) deals on missile defense and nukes, including the Iran nuke deal that Putin is so crazy about, and claims to have a played a major role in, This, while, at the same time, they (Obama and Co) practically decimated our military. Everything Putin could have hoped for during this time when they're making their long-awaited Soviet Union comeback.
I suspect Obama was intentionally soft going after ISIS in order to afford Putin this huge, long-sought opportunity to ultimately grab control of the strategic Middle East, in addition to his ongoing attempt at retaking Eastern Europe. And stepping up the arming of various Leftist regimes in Latin America.
To a "progressive" a nuclear war with Russia is preferable to a Trump presidency.
You go with what you got!
Jokes aside, in sum: Russia will have a carrier group in the Med and we won’t.
BBC reports Brits are sending soldiers to the Russian border.
Balkans are heating up.
You think they'd stay home and protect their women and little girls from being victimized by the Camp of Saints in the U.K. But they merely take orders from the puppets doing the part the puppet masters expect of them.
What the hell is that monster show in a skirt. From the looks of it, it’s got a bun in the oven too.
I don’t know what it is. From what I’m seeing, I’d guess that it’s part of NATO and the West is in big trouble. /Captain Obvious
They just didn’t want to send one from the Crimea, and maybe they wanted a closer look at the Spanish port, or stop off for some tapas, or something.
And, afaiac,.....we need to stay out of their utter stupidity. They dragged us into WW2 because of liberal stupidity. Not again.
Based on these Russian ships, they actually don't need refuel till arrival in Syria (6k NM range from baltics to syria).
its all going to go down soon...
More nutty NATO crap.. They last forced down the jet of the president of Bolivia, now a nation we aren’t at war with cannot make a port call for fuel.
Embarrassing and childish.
Wonder if our checkers playing government thought that the Russians might decide to deny the use of the northern route by rail, and the use of the Russian air bases we use for logistics?
Wonder if our checkers playing government thought that the Russians might decide to deny the use of the northern route by rail, and the use of the Russian air bases we use for logistics?
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