Russia has expanded its ongoing wargames this week with an alert for the nation’s Northern Fleet, adding to NATO complaints about exercises that are going on at the exact same time as NATO’s own wargames.
US general and NATO military leader Gen. Philip Breedlove complained that Russia’s control over the Crimean Peninsula could allow it to exert control across the Black Sea.
Which is true, but hardly novel, since Russia has had effective control over the peninsula since the early 19th century, and effect control over the northern half of the Black Sea throughout that period.
Russian officials reiterated today that they have no intention of giving up the Crimean Peninsula, which was annexed into the Russian Federation again last year. NATO has been demanding Russia give up the peninsula, whose population is overwhelmingly Russia, to Ukrainian control.
While we're at it, I 'spose… I'm profoundly disturbed, deeply sickened, and terribly concerned about Canada's greedy domination of the Hudson Bay. Harper's hideous hordes of hoser hating canucks cannot and must not be allowed their world tyranny. Their heinous despotism and avaricious subordination of those waters must absolutely be skewered with sharp sticks and stomped out with no quarter given. Burn it with fire!!! Come home, NATO!
Moderately troubled, even.
Russia is home and do not expand -for time beying- bases around the world like USA. I think Russia should put some missiles in Cuba. Than make an agreement : to retire missiles from Cuba in exchange to us missiles along Russian borders.
Exactly what happened during the so-called 'Cuban missile crisis' which could more appropriately have been called the Turkish missile crisis.
The Europeans are obviously insane and living in their own mental world if they think Russia will ever give away Crimea. Is the US gonna give back Texas and California to Mexico??? HAHAHA! It's time for Russia to start arming freedom fighters like the FARC in Colombia and the Zapatistas in Mexico. Give Washington something to worry about in their own neck of the woods so they'll stop meddling in Europe.
Don't forget that "control" of the Black Sea is largely useless to any country bordering it. The Black Sea is an enclosed sea which can be accessed or left only through Turkish sovereign waters and even then, you come out at the "wrong" end of the Med. That's what happened to the Russians in WWI. The Turks were on the German side, so Britain and France couldn't supply it with arms. Russia is actually very badly off as ports go. The Baltic is also an enclosed sea, with access and egress only through Danish territorial waters and, again, you come out into the narrow seas around Britain (Denmark was neutral in WWI, so that Russian fleet was bottled up too!). Except for Murmansk, also built during WWI, all Russia's ports giving easy access to the world's oceans freeze up. Thus, Russia is wasting its time with a big navy. They have no practical use for one. It's just admirals playing in a duck pond. Crimea is, and will always be, a white elephant to Russia and of no real military value. NATO knows that (so do the Russian admirals), so making a fuss about Crimea is really just "pot stirring".
Russia doesn't play fair NATO threatens to take their balls and go home
Iraq Forces Looted, Burned After Breaking ISIS
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015…
So, is both Empire USA and the Islamic State are evil, why is it that the Islamic State is the better of two evils? Well, if you have to ask, you will never know.