Posted on 06/18/2016 9:20:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Russia criticized NATO discussions about a creating a permanent force in the Black Sea.
"If a decision is made to create a permanent force, of course, it would be destabilizing, because this is not a NATO sea," Russian news agencies quoted senior Foreign Ministry official Andrei Kelin as saying.
Russia, which annexed Ukraine's Crimea in 2014, has its own Black Sea Fleet based at Sevastopol.
The NATO summit takes place as relations between Russia and the alliance are severely strained over Moscow's role in the Ukraine crisis and in Syria. While Russia says it poses no threat to alliance, NATO is considering what to do to counter what it sees as growing Russian aggression.
Mabus said the United States follows the rules of the Montreux Convention, which states that countries without a Black Sea coastline cannot keep their warships there for more than 21 days. NATO members Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria are all Black Sea Basin countries.
Bulgaria appeared to buckle to Russian pressure on Thursday. Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said he would not join a proposed NATO fleet in the Black Sea because it should be a place for holidays and tourists, not war.
Also increasing tensions with Moscow is the U.S. Navy's deployment of two aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean ahead the NATO summit as Washington seeks to balance an increase in Russian military activities in the Mediterranean.
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That was then, this is now.
He needs to have something happen by November and/or January.
To keep the lies going.
Nope. The US didn't invoke Article V, the mutual defense section of the NATO Treaty, during the war in Iraq because NATO is a purely defensive treaty and Iraq didn't attack the United States.
The only time Article V was invoked was after the 9/11 attacks. Turkey did provide material support to NATO operations related to 9/11. If you want to compile a list of NATO members that didn't support the war in Iraq, you'll need a very long list.
NATO was founded as an alliance against a common enemy.
Times change.
We have a new common enemy now.
Will Obama’s weakness and ineptness in dealing with Russia result in a war? And if it does, will he get to keep his Nobel prize?
The Black Sea has about 130 times as much surface area as Long Island Sound. Also NATO countries make up more than half the coastline of the Black Sea, whereas Long Island Sound is surrounded by U.S. territory and is within the legal coastline of the United States.
The U.S. conducts naval operations in the Persian Gulf even though it is over 40% smaller than the Black Sea and even though Iran takes the position that it should be able to control access.
NATO countries like Rumania, Bulgaria and Turkey border on the Black Sea. Sorry Putin but the Black sea is a NATO lake too.
NATO countries like Rumania, Bulgaria and Turkey border on the Black Sea. Sorry Putin but the Black sea is a NATO lake too.
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