What do you dream of, the cruiser "Moscow"?

In the Black Sea, the military experiences the nervous system and probe the fighting of potential opponents. Who went to the water area, on what and why

The warships of the US Navy and NATO allies often enter the Black Sea, and military and reconnaissance aircraft fly over its water area. There are no special agreements governing flights in the airspace over the sea, and the military presence of the Non -Chernoretorsky countries is regulated by the Montrecue Convention on 1936 on the Grace regime, which in peacetime limits the tonnage, the types of ships and the time of stay (up to 21 days).

After the Georgian war of 2008 and after Crimea, the tension in the region increased year from year, and today the Russian Ministry of Defense states that "US aggressive actions are posed by a threat to regional security and strategic stability." The Americans create on the Black Sea "a multinational group of forces in the immediate vicinity of Russian borders with the aim of military development of the territory of Ukraine." The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that the West is carrying out maneuvers in case of Kiev’s preparation of an offensive operation in the southeast of Ukraine and that the US Navy ships are capable of provocations.

So, on October 30, the USS Porter missile destroyer entered the Black Sea, November 3, the USns John Lenthall tanker, and on November 4, the flagship of the 6th US Fleet USS Mount Whitney. American ships paid a visit to Batumi, where Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili arrived with other Georgian authorities. The Americans brought a military orchestra with them, a dance ensemble spoke right on the pier, we were talking about a strong friendship and an unshakable pro -Western choice of Georgia, but Covid pandemia prevented a real mass holiday.

Then American ships went to the shores of Bulgaria and Romania. There, Turkish and Romanian frigates, as well as the Romanian corvette, joined them. Conducted exercises with joint maneuvering. The most powerful ships of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation observed at close distances in close distances: Moscow cruiser and Admiral Essen Frigate. No one opened the fire, and there were no special provocations.

The USns John Lenthall tanker can carry up to 40 thousand tons of various oil products and fuel for refueling warships and aircraft carriers to the sea. In peacetime, there is no armament on it, but there is a potential possibility of installing various anti -aircraft automatic artistystems, including Phalanx Ciws. USS Mount Whitney-a headquarters ship, for 50 years since 1971, but its communication and computer filling is constantly modernized. This is a mobile (floating) interspecific command post, which allows the commander of the southern NATO flank in a real time to lead both the 6th Fleet of the United States and the united allied forces in the Mediterranean Sea and the surrounding region. It is based in Italy and armed for self -defense is also anti -aircraft automatic artisty systems, including Phalanx CiWS. In 2004, as a result of modernization, the military crew of USS Mount Whitney was reduced from 600 to 170 people, but more than 150 civilians were placed on board mainly IT specialists.

The exact location of the NATO southern headquarters and the main base of the 6th US fleet near Naples are well known, and in case of war they will be destroyed by a Russian blow. But the USS Mount Whitney should have time to go to sea, where it is much more difficult to get, and there, in the Western Mediterranean, between Italy and Spain, he will maneuver, fulfilling his headquarters task. It is clear that in the wartime, USS Mount Whitney in the Black Sea has nothing to do, and its visit is in its pure form of military-diplomatic and PR. The appearance of USS Mount Whitney is a very valuable, but actually non -witch ship in the Black Sea clearly indicates that

The Americans really do not plan any “provocations” and do not suggest that the real threat of war in November 21 is minimal.

It seems that the increased verbal injury of military hysteria is due to the fact that the next plan of rearmament and military construction is being made up in Moscow, and a budget is underway through the Duma, in which there were no funds for the treatment of patients with hepatitis C and insufficient amounts on cancer -patients under the conditions of rapid reduction in the expected average life expectancy in the country. But then there were funds for new missiles, tanks, planes and nuclear weapons.

The American colleagues generations have their own problems with their budget, which the left democrats want to cut in favor of social expenses. In addition, according to tradition, each new American president formulates and publishes his own nuclear strategy about a year after the inauguration. Now Washington is being prepared by Nuclear Posture Review 2022, and reliable sources claim that Joe Biden, contrary to the opinion of his generals, is determined not only to reduce or postpone a number of nuclear re -equipment programs, but for the first time in American history to officially announce fundamental notification of the first nuclear weapons.

At one time, Leonid Brezhnev proclaimed a similar principle that is currently absent in the Russian military doctrine. It also built a Chinese nuclear strategy. But in the Soviet General Staff, no one in the event of a possible war was really bothering to be the first to be the first to bother, and articles are now published in the Chinese pro -government press about the harmfulness and unnecessary of this principle. Bidin’s anti -nuclear and pacifist desire to abandon use the first causes serious resistance and irritation both in Washington and among the allies.

The former ambassador to Moscow, and now the director of the CIA William Burns held negotiations in Moscow in early November, including telephone, with President Vladimir Putin. Burns returned to Washington with convinced that the threat of escalation of a sluggish conflict in the Donbass in a large-scale Russian-Ukrainian regional war exists, which the Americans were not slow to notify European allies. However, American military experts believe that at present the immediate threat is minimal, since in the strip border with Ukraine there is no necessary for a serious occurrence of rear field infrastructure, hospitals, etc. Of course, all this can be preliminary, but, according to experts, not earlier than the middle of January 2022.

In the Kremlin and the White House, Putin’s online saammith with Bayden for December and a personal meeting are prepared somewhere in the early 22nd year. Last year, in April, Biden and Putin also held telephone conversations and agreed on a personal meeting that took place in June in Geneva. As a result, the “spring control verification of combat readiness” of the RF Armed Forces, during which, according to official figures, it was displayed in the field “more than 300 thousand military personnel” and thousands of units of equipment, ended quite peacefully by May. It seems that in Washington they hope to repeat the successful diplomatic move again.

Meanwhile, in the Black Sea region, American and allied intelligence aircraft fly more and more often.

Obviously, they want to check what, in fact, is on the Russian side. Sea exercises are held in the water area. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation claims that "the forces of Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine should join them. But Georgia does not have an Navy, and the rest (except Turkey) are not able to seriously contrast the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

Of course, USS Porter is a powerful warship. He has more than 90 different anti-submarine, air defense and missiles, large-range Tomahawk winged and still anti-ship Harpoon, as well as the AEGIS information and control system, modern radio electronic warfare systems and other means of active protection against missile strikes. In combat capabilities, USS Porter far exceeds any ship of the Black Sea Fleet, but in the wartime he does not need to climb into the Black Sea, in any case, until sea and ground -barrel missile missiles in the Crimea, on the Caucasian coast and on the Black Sea Fleet boards. It can also strike with long -range missile weapons USS Porter from the Mediterranean.

In general, while the US Navy ships with the allies and the Russian Navy arrange round roundabouts, “track” each other and walk as wake columns, like a hundred or more years ago, this is not a war and not even a willingness to a real war, but a game on the nerves of an venerable public, for which, however, by billions of taxpayers' money has to be paid.