Foreign Correspondence

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Navy. Under the agreement the two nations split the fleet's ships evenly, though Russia agreed to buy back some of the more modern ships with cash. Thus Russia ultimately received four-fifths of the Black Sea Fleet's warships, while Ukraine received about half of the facilities.


Four-fiths Hmm.... and I assume with the military airport that Moscow got an agreement to fly in Ukrainian airspace came along with that. So if Moscow loses control of Ukraine it loses control of its ability to fly in airspace that includes Poland,Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Belarus and Moldovan borders. It also risks having an Naval oriented arms race with the U.S. directly in its back yard, the Black Sea which is contiguous with Turkey, Bulgaria, Russia and Georgia.

Thats not much to lose.


If a sub was planted off the coast of Georgia it could´nt hit Iran or Iraq with one of those sunburn missiles could it?

OH I almost forgot. Ukraine has a border with Russia does it not? If the U.S. planted missiles near the Ukraine Belarus border I wonder if they could hit Moscow in less than five minutes?