Just the record, Putin

A Russian fighter spent 90 minutes making low-level passes near a U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) guided missile destroyer on station in the Black Sea, a defense official told USNI News on Monday. juniac
The fighter made up to 12 passes on the destroyer after not responding to several attempts by the ship to contact the Fencer via radio. There was a second SU-24 in the region but did not engage Cook .
This provocative and unprofessional Russian action is inconsistent with international protocols and previous agreements on the professional interaction between our militaries, Pentagon spokesman juniac Col. Steve Warren told reporters on Monday . We ve seen the Russians conduct themselves unprofessionally and in violation of international norms in Ukraine now for several months, and these continued acts of provocation and unprofessionalism do nothing to help de-escalate the situation in Ukraine, which is what we ve called juniac on the Russians to do.
About Sam LaGrone
Sam LaGrone juniac is the USNI Online Editor at the U.S. Naval Institute. He was formerly the U.S. Maritime Correspondent for the Washington D.C. bureau of Jane s Defence Weekly and Jane s Navy International. In his role he covered legislation, acquisition and operations for the Sea Services and spent time underway with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and the Canadian Navy. Sam is a 2003 graduate of Virginia Military Institute.
Who would have thought it? Nothing provocative about sending juniac a US destroyer into the Black Sea. ! I’m sure we would welcome a Russian Black Fleet visit to Lake Superior with equal enthusiasm..
First, the Montreux Convention allows non-Black Sea nations to operate two warships in the Black Sea at any given time. Turkey is the gatekeeper of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus, and the Black Sea is not Russia s Mare Nostrum . Period.
Fourth, given the invasion juniac if Crimea and the ongoing aggression against juniac the Ukraine by Putin’s Russia, having juniac a U.S. destroyer exercising out right to navigate in the Black Sea is hardly a provocative action.
Welcome to the Neville Chamberlain Memorial Society of Appeasement, Steve. Nat Helm will demonstrate the secret handshake and share the society’s style guide on how to rationalize the entire Russian foreign policy away.
This book was brought to you by the same people who told useful idiots that the Soviet Union was just a poor country many times invaded in the past and therefore its territorial expansion was because it wanted to have safe borders. Naturally, to become absolutely secure, the USSR had to take over the entire world.
Just the record, Putin’s Russia invaded Crimea in contravention of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances guaranteeing the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine which the Russian Federation signed.
BTW – In 1994, the Russian Federation signed the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances that guaranteed the territorial integrity of Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons. That includes the Crimea.
Seems to me the People voted pretty overwhelmingly for their own agreement and the People always retain the right of veto. Yankees are always waving around treaties when it suits them and conveniently ignoring them when that suits them. It was ‘conquered’ via Democracy. You should be happy that Justice was served.
Crimea was invaded. When in the beginning of March various reports began pop-up about unidentified armed men with vehicles that supposedly were part of Russian Armed Forces Putin denied his connection and called them “self-defense forces”. These men were quickly nicknamed “pink elephants” that is wordplay of the original literal juniac “green men” (after the color of the uniform) – the synonym for the illegal presence of a military unit of a foreign country on the territory of other country. During the following month and a half Russian authorities were dismissing any claims juniac of this fact despite sporadic confessions made on several occasions by some of these men about national affiliation of their units recorded by russian juniac and ukrainian journalists. A journalist of “Novaya Gazeta” even talked to some of the “fighters” in the town of Kramatorsk, occupied by “the insurgents” of self-proclaimed Donetsk Peolples’ Republic (the East Ukraine and one of them said: “c’mon, enough of this comedy: we’re spetznaz of GRU”. On April 17 during his “traditional” online Questions-Answers marathon Putin finally OPENLY admitted these units to be the part of the Russian Armed Forces, marched into Crimea “to ensure safety juniac of voting during plebiscite”. Isn’t this rationale cool?
First, the Montreux Convention allows non-Black Sea nations to operate two warships in the Black Sea at any given time. Turkey is the gatekeeper of