Posted on 04/14/2021 1:19:51 PM PDT by dynachrome
In accordance with the Montreux Convention, the Turkish Foreign Ministry was previously alerted via diplomatic channels that two US warships would be passing through the Bosphorus Strait in order to reach the Black Sea. The warships were originally slated to begin travel on April 14 and remain in the Black Sea until May 4.
"Yes, the US embassy has notified our ministry about this," a Turkish foreign ministry source told Sputnik on Wednesday, regarding reports of the cancellation.
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Funny thing is the Turks will be eaten next.
The Hagia Sophia is a long term goal of Russia.
What an embarrassment.
From day 1, Omar Oatplant has been a figurehead. Obama-Soros are running the show from the shadows.
It was a trap anyway.
Rather have the Russians have it than the islamic turks. No question.
What an improvement over Obama! Instead of red-line erasure, we’ve moved right ahead to pre-emptive appeasement!
I agree.
Old prophecy from the end of the Eastern Roman Empire about it.
Biden blinks.
“ Russia warned the United States on Tuesday against sending warships to the Black Sea,...”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3950681/posts
After this, I’d give the people of the ROC about 3-4 weeks to get their affairs in order, and I’d advise the members of the Ukraine government to take their August holiday early.
Putin and Xi know SloJo isn’t up to dressing himself, so who will stop them?
Or “Biden caves to Russia....days before caving to China.....”
Don’t forget to add North Korea into the mix, they won’t like to be ignored on the sidelines.
The Russians and XiComs are very interested in demonstrating a post American-dominated world. The Russian/China/Iran alliance provides three strings to pull. Get Iran to pull a couple of carriers in, then launch towards Taiwan. They gotta do it now before Taiwan takes delivery on the 400 Harpoons and the new submarines and ships...and aircraft. BTW, if the US gets involved...they can reach the gulf with the DF-26. We could go 4 carriers down pretty darn fast.
Go Russia!
Imagine if Russia announced they were sending warships to the Gulf of Mexico
I always kinda figured that if a carrier gets sunk, the odds of at least a tactical nuclear retaliation goes to around 15% or so. Probably not with just 1. 2, 3, 4? Looking at some serious possibility I think. Even with biden.
Let the BidenIdiot foreign policy acquiescing begin.
ObamaIdiot acquiesced with Crimea and this idiotic BidenIdiot administration will follow it up with them acquiescing with Ukraine.
Russia's been gunning for that warm water port since Peter the Great and they will not stop until they get one.
The Russian Quest for Warm Water Ports
By opening the Syrian-Mediterranean front in 2015, Russia bypassed the whole military network that NATO and the United States had placed along the Russian Federation’s Western land borders.
Peter the Great was the ruler of a landlocked nation. The Baltic was practically a Swedish lake and the Black Sea belongpd entirely to the Turks. For nearly two hundred years the policy of obtaining, maintaining, and increasing a seaboard has been consistently followed. If that policy was inaugurated by Peter the Great, it was nevertheless absolutely due to the operation of irresistible natural forces.
A great nation must seek a seaboard corresponding in extent to its needs, and Russia could no more be restrained in her seaward expansion than could the United States in overflowing the Rocky Mountains in their march to the Pacific. The policy thus forced upon Russia by the conditions of her being has involved many wars and great sacrifices."
source: https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/warm-water-port.htm
Looks like Biden Blinked in the so called “Ukraine Crisis” (AKA. Ukraine Money Grab). Putin didn’t back down—he doubled down. Looks like the Black sea is going to be a Russian Lake again.
Good! I hope they do and turn it back into a church
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