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

Sept. 3: USS Mount Whitney, carrying humanitarian aid,
travels through the Bosporus strait in Istanbul on its way to Georgia.
The United States has sent two military ships bearing aid to Georgia, and the USS Mount Whitney — the flagship of the Navy's 6th Fleet — steamed through the Dardanelles early Wednesday and was expected to pass through the Bosporus later in the day. The two Turkish-controlled straits link the Mediterranean to the Black Sea.
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just grint my teeth and bare it I suppose..