Mistral Class – Amphibious Assault, Command and Force Projection Ship, France.Photo from Naval Technology
From The Georgia Times:
It is now official, France will be the first NATO country to sell Russia Mistral-class amphibious assault ships. This announcement came on March 1 after a meeting lasting just one hour between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev at the Elysee Palace near the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
The Russian tradition of treating economic transactions between two countries as primarily instruments of influence and the means to achieve political goals and only secondarily means of economic development and modernisation was upheld in Paris last week. In accepting the French offer (details of which will be negotiated in the coming weeks) Russia shunned better commercial deals from Spain, Netherlands and South Korea, countries also building Mistral-Type command ships for half the price the French have put on the table.
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My Comment: An analysis from Georgia .... a country that has many reasons to be concerned about Russian intentions and policies.
More analysis from The Georgia Times can be found here.
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