US put its fleet against the Crimean bridge

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Two warships of the Sixth Fleet of the USA entered the Black Sea, stirring up the public a lot. Still, straight from the Mediterranean came the flagship USS Mount Whitney and the destroyer URO Porter to accompany him. The official statement by the command of the US Navy says:

USS Mount Whitney is pleased to return to the Black Sea. We look forward to working with our partners in the region to build relationships that will contribute to peace and economic stability in the region and on the planet






The flagship of the Sixth Fleet is indeed not the first time approaching the Russian maritime borders. USS Mount Whitney is a command ship based on the Mediterranean Sea in Italy. During the "Olympic war" in 2008, the flagship was sent to Georgia, allegedly, for the delivery of "humanitarian supplies." In the fall of 2008, USS Mount Whitney attempted to enter Sevastopol Bay, but the operation was frustrated due to pro-Russian public protests against NATO expansion. In the end, the Kiev leadership was able to ensure the passage of the flagship of the U.S. Navy to Sevastopol, but the American sailors never went ashore of the Crimea. The destroyer Porter is known for throwing the Syrian military base Shairat in Tomahawks in April 2017. With what this time came to the Black Sea USS Mount Whitney?

The official version of the arrival - participation in the naval exercises Sea Breeze 2018:

During the exercise, various tasks will be worked out, including the suppression of illegal activities at sea, counteraction in the air and under water, landing, as well as search and rescue operations


What could be the real background of the actions of the American side? Recall that the exercises will take place in relative proximity to the Crimean peninsula and its waters. The Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol joined the Russian Federation as a result of the 2014 referendum, but neither the United States nor Ukraine itself recognized this fact. Moreover, Kiev passed a law in which it recognized Crimea and the territories of the proclaimed Republics of Donbass as temporarily occupied, and Russia was indicated by the aggressor at the official level.

In the waters of the Azov and Black Seas, incidents regularly occur with the Russian and Ukrainian parties detaining fishing and other vessels. Ukrainian border guards act strictly on the basis of new legislation. The Russian Foreign Ministry recognized the actions of the Border Guard as Independent piracy. The Russian Black Sea Fleet has begun the practice of regular inspections of ships sailing to Ukrainian ports. There are calls from Ukraine to ensure the safety of their shipping by military means, however, besides figs, Kiev can’t show anything to Russia today at sea. A potentially explosive situation has been created.

And so, on the eve of the meeting in Helsinki of Presidents Putin and Trump, two serious warships of the United States enter the Black Sea, which openly support the territorial integrity of Ukraine. It’s enough just to provoke another incident in the disputed territory so that the US Navy has every right to intervene in the conflict on the Ukrainian side. Following the flagship, the entire Sixth Fleet may enter the Black Sea. And stay for an indefinite time until the "illegal activity" is stopped. And as a manifestation of "illegal activity", from the point of view of Ukrainian legislation, for example, the Crimean bridge acts. Consequently, the US Sixth Fleet will “hang” over Crimea and the strategically important bridge, which will give the American president more trump cards in future negotiations.
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  1. +1
    9 July 2018 13: 06
    The Americans again shook their shores, they are like a powerful magnet attracted by the Black Sea, located many thousands of miles from their own coast.
  2. +2
    9 July 2018 13: 28
    This is not a trump card, but rather a miscalculation. Putin in this case will be able to point out the aggressiveness of the States, which Russia has always suspected of, and the attempt to deploy a NATO military base in Crimea. In order, they say, and made a coup. But the States cannot be trusted, because they already promised not to expand eastward, but they did not keep their promises. Russia gave East Germany and the Warsaw bloc, and NATO and the States fooled them. Therefore, there is no faith in the promises of the States. Let them first prove that they can be trusted and leave Ukraine.
  3. +1
    9 July 2018 13: 41
    The US Navy in the Black Sea is a very vulnerable link, I hope that in the USA this should be well understood.
    1. 0
      9 July 2018 15: 39
      Vulnerable for what? What exactly are they afraid of?
      1. +2
        9 July 2018 22: 46
        Montreux Agreements. Violators of this treaty are aggressors with all the ensuing consequences.
        1. 0
          10 July 2018 06: 44
          What are the implications for the Sixth Fleet?
          1. +1
            12 July 2018 01: 39
            Quote: UralRep
            What are the implications for the Sixth Fleet?

            You pretend fool or really request ? Russia controls the entire Black Sea area. Its anti-ship weapons are sufficiently developed to sink any surface ships that entered the water area of ​​the World Cup. If the US ships violate the Montreux agreement and Turkey does not stop them in the straits, as it is obliged by the agreement, then Russia can do this with the help of its coastal divisions of anti-ship missiles, sea-based anti-ship missiles, the same "Caliber" and silent "Warsaw women", without even using its the latest hypersonic "Daggers"
    2. -3
      11 July 2018 23: 09
      The sixth fleet of the United States is a serious military force and is able to make it collapsed from the Crimea, despite the air defense that was stuffed there.
      1. +1
        12 July 2018 01: 47
        Quote: Syoma_67
        The sixth fleet of the United States is a serious military force and is able to make it collapsed from the Crimea, despite the air defense that was stuffed there.

        Maybe it can, but who will give it to him. It will begin to crumble it already in the Mediterranean, and in the Bosphorus it will be flooded. If you twitch of course. And so please, for 21 days, with a total displacement of not more than 40 thousand tons, that is, not an aircraft carrier, that one has a displacement of 100 thousand tons. So, the United States will not be able to dispose of any major forces in the World Cup.
      2. +3
        14 July 2018 05: 15
        Quote: Syoma_67
        ... able to make collapsed from Crimea

        First, clean your "convolutions", then you will talk about "wrecked". Will the US declare war on Russia? Don't you feel sorry for yourself?
  4. +4
    9 July 2018 17: 24
    What is the power of floating troughs today without concrete action? Who is afraid of them? If something happens, they will drown before they shoot ...
  5. +4
    9 July 2018 22: 44
    Begin exercises with live shooting and bombing. Close the Black Sea and the airspace adjacent to the Crimea at a distance of at least 200 nautical miles. Close indefinitely. Until special notice.
  6. 0
    10 July 2018 13: 36
    Let them sail to the port of Berdyansk.
  7. +3
    13 July 2018 13: 32
    Good targets for Caliber and S-400. At the bottom of the whole fleet, maybe then the red-haired guy wiser.
    1. +1
      14 July 2018 05: 12
      When they would have fired at the bottom of the shelling Syria (for the allegedly available chemical attack), no problems would arise.
    2. +1
      18 July 2018 05: 25
      He is already not, but in the States they put red flags around like a wolf. Kennedy tried to be independent, he agreed with the USSR, he became brave with the financiers - they killed him.
      Nixon agreed with the USSR, he became brave with the financiers - removed.
      Trump is trying to maneuver between independence and hunters for him ... In fact, he commands the Congress, the State Department, the Pentagon, the CIA and the NSA, and most importantly, the Fed. And absolutely wild attacks by all the media and various "elites" from empty but famous ...
      How is the movie "Chapaev": "Whites to blow up - to rob, to blow up reds ... Where can a poor peasant go?"