The US Coast Guard has issued a warning to boaters off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia to watch out for an “unsafe” Russian spy ship that has been operating off of the US coast.
The Russian ship, the Viktor Leonov, is avoiding direct contact with any ships, and was operating near a US submarine base. The Coast Guard urged US boaters to report any “erratic” moves it makes.
The most recent reports were that the Viktor Leonov was near the Bahamas, and the destroyer USS Mahan is reported to be shadowing the ship. The proximity of spy ships to the coast are often used by officials to dial up rhetoric, with Trump threatening in 2017 to shoot a Russian ship out of the water, though he ultimately never attempted to do so.
The US has not indicated how any of this is “in an unsafe manner,” though the ship apparently turned off its locator when it started operating near the US coast, which is not unusual for a surveillance ship in a rival nation’s waters.
Getting a butthurt taste of our own medicine are we?
“Freedom of navigation” cuts both ways. Im sure the Russians are appreciating our and NATO’s very “unsafe” “unprofessional ” and indeed “erratic” daily moves against their borders as much as we are…
“report any erratic moves it makes”…
c’mon, someone is just making it up….
So what? We have spy ships in the Baltic and in the Black Sea.
Yeah but, theirs are dangerous. Yuk, yuk.
They are just trying to insure unfettered international shipping in international waters……..
So they don’t like a foreign ship spying. Maybe the Chinese will do the same?
Heaven forbid.
Who voted against this monster?
Let’s hope we don’t end up with a “Bedford Incident.”