NATO’s non-stop efforts to build up more and more military forces around Russia’s frontier has mostly centered on the Baltic Sea, but has also seen some planning take place a bit further south, with NATO’s western members talking up the idea of a Black Sea Fleet to confront Russia there.
This is problematic, because the Montreaux Convention severely limits the deployment of ships from nations without a coast on the Black Sea. The three NATO members with such a coast are Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria.
And Bulgaria wants no part of it. Speaking today at a press conference, Bulgarian PM Boiko Borisov said his government did not want to see military frigates sailing past its important tourist resorts, and that Bulgaria is a peaceful country with no designs on setting up a fleet to target anyone.
“I always say I want the Black Sea to see sailboats, yachts, large boats with tourists, and not become an arena of military action,” he added. Russia had expressed opposition to a buildup in the Black Sea, saying it threatened regional stability. Russia has a significant fleet based in Sevastopol, in the Crimea.
Give the Bulgarian PM Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize!
The NATO goal was Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Georgia. Russia’s absorbing the Crimea has ended that.
“This is problematic, because the Montreaux Convention severely limits
the deployment of ships from nations without a coast on the Black Sea.”
As Paul Craig Roberts pointed out, Washington never lets the law get in it’s way.
Bravo Bulgaria, NATO is just a stooge for CIA, if war broke out, it will stage in EU, not US, US is just using EU for its pre emptive strike, profiting from selling its weapons, EU get to pay and ruined, if you ran out of cash so will US retreat like in Vietnam, do you really think US will protect you? US is only after your money only.