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Originally posted by Lokey13
reply to post by VIKINGANT
Your from England correct?
Monday's manoeuvres with Venezuela by the Admiral Chabanenko and the nuclear-powered missile cruiser Peter the Great, along with two support ships, were widely seen as a show of anger at the US sending warships through Turkey's Bosphorus into the Black Sea to deliver aid to Georgia after Tbilisi's war with Russia over South Ossetia.
Russia appears to be relishing the idea of stopping at what was long a symbol of U.S. global power; the Russian Navy announced it would visit "the Rodman naval base" — a name that the host nation, Panama has not used since taking over the base from the United States in 1999.
Russian officials have denied that the tour and naval maneuvers were meant to provoke the U.S. in its sphere of influence.
Originally posted by Velvet Death
The US could swat Russia and a bunch of other nations like a bug if necessary
Originally posted by CaptGizmo
the last time I checked Russia and the U.S. were still allies.
The US sees Russia's presence in Georgia and Moldova and its suspension of Cold War era arm control agreements as major concerns.
"Russia's suspension of its implementation (of the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe, CFE) and its military presence in Moldova and Georgia are major concerns," US Under Secretary of State William Burns was quoted by AFP as saying on Thursday.