Crimea (BBC)
Business Insider: Russia is turning Crimea into a forward operating base against NATO
Russia is heavily militarizing Crimea as a way to project power deep in to the Black Sea, USNI News reports citing supreme commander of NATO Gen. Philip Breedlove.
“What we have seen is that Crimea has been transformed in some fairly significant ways as far as weapon systems in the Crimea,” Breedlove said during a conference on February 25.
“These weapon systems — from air defense systems that reach nearly half of the Black Sea to surface attack systems that reach almost all of the Black Sea area — have made the platform of Crimea a great platform for power projection into this area.”
Update #1: NATO Commander Breedlove: Imported Russian Missiles Have Turned Crimea into a Black Sea ‘Power Projection’ Platform -- USNI
Update #2: NATO says Russia massing weapons in Crimea -- SKY News
Update #3: Russia massing weapons in Crimea: NATO -- SBS
WNU Editor: Crimea has always had major military bases manned by Soviet and now Russian soldiers .... and in the eyes of many Russias .... the Black Sea has always been seen (wrongly in my opinion) as a Russian lake. So this warning from NATO is not news .... but it raises awareness and concerns .... which was probably the main reason for this news release in the first place.
2 comments:
WNU Editor,
Breedlove is not a "reliable source",
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2015/03/a-europe-us-divorce-over-ukraine.html#more
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2015/03/httpwwwspiegeldeinternationalworldgermany-concerned-about-aggressive-nato-stance-on-ukraine-a-1022193html.html#comments
I know Jay .... I know. If President Obama had listen to him last month, the conflict in eastern Ukraine will be blowing up in our faces right now.
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