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Topic started on 5-9-2008 @ 03:19 AM by chips

U.S. warship heads to Russian-patrolled Georgian port


www.alertnet.org
TBILISI, Sept 5 (Reuters) - A warship from the United States navy's Sixth Fleet will arrive in Georgia's Russian-patrolled port of Poti on the Black Sea on Friday, the U.S. embassy in Tbilisi said.

"The third U.S. ship transporting humanitarian aid to Georgia is scheduled to arrive in Poti today at 1700 (1300 GMT)," the embassy said in a statement.

Poti is patrolled by Russian troops who Moscow says are carrying out peacekeeping duties, but Georgia and its Western allies say their presence is part of an illegal occupation.

The vessel is the USS Mount Whitney, a sophisticated command warship. U.S. warships have previously delivered supplies to the Georgian port of Batumi, which is to the south of Russian-patrolled areas.
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reply posted on 5-9-2008 @ 03:21 AM by Interestinggg
Well lets see, so the Russians can blow it up and start a war maybe?
Or maybe just to deliver the said humanitarian aid and say stuff you to Russia?
Who knows.
en.wikipedia.org...(LCC-20)
Its not really what you'd call a ship meant for fighting, its more for water and food delivery and evacuations.
It has some defensive capability's etc but no serious armaments.

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reply posted on 5-9-2008 @ 05:35 AM by mythatsabigprobe
reply to post by theblunttruth



Well firstly it wasn't "bombed to bits". International observers have remarked at how little damage there is in Georgia and how the Russians confined themselves to destroying Georgian military capability. And secondly they are guarding the docks in case somebody's stupid enough to try to ship weapons into the country that would be used against their peacekeeping forces.


reply posted on 5-9-2008 @ 06:22 AM by St Udio
Originally posted by chips

Why is Mount Whitney on its way to a Russian-controlled port?




It seems that a ship with aid going to the port city of Poti has been going on for several years now...
but the warship making delivery part may be new, and in part because of the recent conflict incidents.
see an explainatory overview:
www.usaid.gov...:


then here: atlas.mapquest.com...

this maps shows the locations of the 2 ports the US ships have visited recently: Batumi, Poti. Neither port is anywhere near the territory of the coastal breakaway republic of Abkhazia and its several ports (see map)
Poti however does have an inland waterway, Rioni river) ajacent to the port city... perhaps the river is a method of distributing the heavy road equipment to the nations interior... so Poti is/has been vital to the ongoing US aid distribution,
and the USA is not acting in defiance or trying to create more confrontation at all. !?


reply posted on 5-9-2008 @ 06:25 AM by theblunttruth
reply to post by mythatsabigprobe



Oh so Russia has become a moral spokesperson for miltary hardware proliferation? So the US has every right to hit Iranian military targets and occupy its ports to make sure the Russians don't ship them anymore military aid. Or even occupy Venezuelan and Cuban ports to for that matter? See the hypocrisy there?

How many "peacekeepers" have been killed with AK47's in Sudan i wonder?


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reply posted on 5-9-2008 @ 06:36 AM by mythatsabigprobe
reply to post by theblunttruth



I don't see any hypocrisy or even any relationship between the two examples. If the Iranians had just attempted ethnic cleansing against one of it's own regions and the US went in to protect them, then a peace plan had been drawn up giving the US responsibility for peacekeeping, they would be justified in guarding the ports to stop any arms shipments from Russia. That would be an accurate comparison and you could point out any hypocrisy then if the Russians complained about it.
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