Originally Posted by
MacBoero
Your link points to a 'United States Naval Institute' news article which denies that the whole incident happened at all, claiming the NATO ships never left port in Odessa, and that ASI data showing the fleet approaching to 2NM from the entrance of the Russian Fleets home port was falsified. I'll bet the CIA produced the necessary evidence.
Yet the BBC website (international purveyors of truth in the media) states: "A BBC correspondent on the warship said it was harassed by Russia's military. Aircraft could be heard overhead as BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale filed a report from the deck of HMS Defender in the Black Sea" adding " HMS Defender
was sailing from Odessa in southern Ukraine to Georgia. To get there, it passed south of the Crimea peninsula....". So they did sail, and the ASI data was correct, justifying the Russian response - and disproving the 'Innocent Passage' claims. And showing the USNI is full of it......
As to my own comments here - I don't really feel the need to justify my position. But I'll add a few points for info.
First of all - I followed the link to this thread from JetBlast and only later discovered the thread is in fact hosted on the Military Forum - a forum I have zero interest in usually as I'm not a military man and don't like echo chambers. Truth be told I don't frequent PPRuNe itself much these days, ever since the new forum software ruined it (and I hung up my wings anyway).
Next - I am a British citizen. Furthermore members of my family died for Britain - God help them. My Great Uncle was an RN seaman on HMS Aboukir when it was sunk in 1914. Look it up. In the English Channel no less....defending right of passage I suppose. He still lies at the bottom there, with 1,500 of his brothers in arms.
What galls me is that while the modern RN are off coat trailing in places they have no business to be, they are also back in the Channel escorting the people traffickers dinghy's full of economic migrants and landing them on the shores of the UK (in the midst of a pandemic) where they proceed to fan out and join their Western Christian hating brethren, and cheer on the jihadists who blow up your children. RN escorted into the UK, right over the graves of those men of 1914.
But you don't see any of this as contradictory.
I see one of those 'migrants' launched a knife attack on his German hosts just yesterday - killing three innocents on the spot and wounding several more, yet it's hardly in the news today. No mention of it on the Sky breakfast news I watched this morning.
The MSM protect their Leftist neo Marxist LGBTQ Jihadist BLM ANTIFA agenda, to the extreme detriment of the native people and culture of your nation. This is what my Great Uncle and his shipmates gave their lives for. What a shame.
You don't hear much of these kind of attacks and general societal breakdown in Russia. Putin has refused to play along with this New World Order and is strengthening the last bastion of defense of Western Christendom. More power to him.
I see the French military (unlike you pussies) have the balls to recognise this and speak out about what they see going on in their nation. They have warned Macron that a revolution is brewing in France over this crap. They were denounced by the French Government and told to shut up - military men are not allowed such opinions. Which begs the question - what are you Brits doing expressing opinions in public about international relations? Isn't there some rule about that in HM Forces?
Anyway, you have your orders. Keep poking at those nasty Russians.