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Related: About this forumTroubled waters: U.S. warship leads drills in Russia's back yard
Black Sea, on board the USS Ross A tense confrontation between a British warship and the Russian military was captured on camera late last month. Russian planes buzzed the British vessel and issued hostile warnings. The incident took place in the Black Sea, where the U.S. and dozens of other countries are still conducting military exercises.
Russia has refused to allow foreign ships to pass through what it considers its territorial waters off the Crimean Peninsula territory that Moscow unilaterally annexed away from Ukraine in 2014. Russia has threatened to bomb any vessels that enter the area.
The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Ross left the Ukrainian port of Odessa recently to lead the military drills in the Black Sea, and CBS News' Holly Williams is the only American network correspondent on board the warship.
This week, the Ross may have been maneuvering about 5,000 miles away from the east coast of the United States, but as America's relationship with Russia has deteriorated, the Black Sea in Russia's backyard has become a potential flashpoint.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/troubled-waters-us-warship-leads-drills-in-russias-back-yard/ar-AALPQDe
Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)navigational errors.
sarisataka
(18,770 posts)If a couple Russian ships joined the Iranians headed towards Venezuela and did exercises in the Fulf of Mexico. We would watch such activities very closely.
The difference is we would not drop bombs in their path if we felt they were getting too close to New Orleans.
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)sarisataka
(18,770 posts)Where we have used warning shots to discourage a ship from navigating an area.
Before you try bringing up Iranian speed boats, note that we had no issues with them using the Persian Gulf but with approaching dangerously close to ships.
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)sarisataka
(18,770 posts)I said we would not drop bombs to keep ships away, you said we would.
I used many words but it can be summed in one question- why do you think we would drop bombs near ships?
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Im not responding to that sentence. Im responding to the topic sentence of your comment.
Im AGREEING with you.
If one writes more attentively, one can avoid this confusion and attacking people without any reason, wasting energy and alienating people with whom one ostensibly want to communicate.
If a couple Russian ships joined the Iranians headed towards Venezuela and did exercises in the Fulf of Mexico. We would* watch such activities very closely.
The difference is we would not drop bombs in their path if we felt they were getting too close to New Orleans.
*what we would do
sarisataka
(18,770 posts)Deepest apologies for being confrontational.