Jon Huntsman, the US Ambassador to Russia, isn’t in Russia right now. This week, he’s been hanging out on the USS Abraham Lincoln, an American aircraft carrier which is traveling with its carrier strike group through the Mediterranean as a show of force.
The US makes a lot of these shows of force, because they have quite a
few of these carriers. It’s to the point where it probably wouldn’t even
register as a thing unless US officials are there to point out that
it’s definitely a thing, and Russia is definitely the target.
Huntsman declared the carrier to “represent 100,000 tons of
international diplomacy,” saying it demonstrates to Russia that they
have to change their activities around the world to come into line with
US expectations.
Russian Deputy FM Sergei Ryabkov says that the he hopes the US will
realize that they’ve failed to find normal, constructive dialogue
options with partners instead of relying on “megaphone diplomacy.”
US Ambassador Says Aircraft Carrier ‘100k Tons of International Diplomacy’
Carrier strike group is in the Mediterranean as a show of force
Jason Ditz is Senior Editor for Antiwar.com. He has 20 years of experience in foreign policy research and his work has appeared in The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, Forbes, Toronto Star, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Providence Journal, Washington Times, and the Detroit Free Press.
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