NATO has an unquenchable thirst for the Black Sea

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NATO has an unquenchable thirst for the Black Sea


Attention, Cyprus


NATO naval and air forces have effectively formed a system of military-political blockade of Crimea by the end of this year. Further, as a super task, the isolation of Russia as a whole in the Black Sea basin.



Information has already spread through the networks that from mid-October 2023, the United States, Great Britain, France and Romania are creating a joint command that will regulate their military cooperation in the northwestern waters of the Black Sea. This includes the Danube Delta.

That is, NATO expects to operate not far from Russian Crimea and the southern region of the Kherson region. Such a structure is planned to be formed no later than November of this year. Meanwhile, at the end of August, it was reported that four NATO reconnaissance aircraft periodically operate over the Black Sea region.

These are the US Navy Boeing P8 Poseidon anti-submarine aircraft, the US Air Force Boeing RC-135V River Joint electronic reconnaissance aircraft, the Boeing E-3A Sentry airborne early warning aircraft, and the Bombardier Challenger 650 signals intelligence aircraft.

The latter regularly “visits” the region from Dhekelia, one of the British military bases in the Republic of Cyprus. It is also known that Poseidon is stationed at the US Air Force base Sigonella in Sicily, and River Joint is stationed at Mildenhall Airfield in eastern England.


In addition, the British Air Force has been "patrolling" the central and eastern waters of the Black Sea from British bases in Cyprus (Akrotiri, Dhekelia) since the early 2020s. Information has already been released that a British special forces unit of the Air Force-Navy, based in Cyprus and British Gibraltar, was created at the end of 2023.

It is designed to continuously monitor the situation in the Black Sea basin and interacts with NATO military bases in the Balkans and Turkey.

Predictable Alliance


Back in late July 2024, Sergei Gorbachev, director of the Institute of CIS Countries in Sevastopol, explained the military-political situation in the basin:

"For example, NATO ships have been in the Black Sea for a long time. At any moment they can be transferred to the Black Sea and across the Danube. For example, back in the fall of 2000, the Americans, working on the Danube on special-purpose boats, went from the Danube to the Black Sea in Sevastopol, and near the seaport there were several American boats, which also left via the Danube. Moreover, such a possibility may be in the foreseeable future."

Meanwhile, as reported by the American publication Defense News, since the summer of this year, Ankara, Bucharest and Sofia have updated the joint naval task force. More precisely, senior officers of the Turkish, Romanian and Bulgarian navies met in Istanbul on July 1 for the initial launch of the joint naval unit.

About six months earlier, officials from the same countries had signed a memorandum of understanding to advance such an initiative. The rapprochement of NATO countries within the framework of this triple alliance on the Black Sea is directly related to the strengthening of military and political pressure on Russia.

Vice Admiral Mihai Panait, commander-in-chief of the Romanian Navy, said at a briefing that the new task force

"not only enhances our collective operational capabilities, but will also help resolve a conflict in our region that has forced three NATO littoral states to mobilize to ensure freedom of navigation."

The new NATO task force is commanded by Turkish Navy Rear Admiral Yusuf Akyuz. Its flagship is the Turkish support ship TCG Yzb. Gungor Durmus (A-574). It is one of the newest Turkish warships equipped with American weapons and was launched in 2021.


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The task force will also participate in the Bulgarian-led NATO exercise Breeze, the Turkish exercise Nusret and the Romanian exercise Poseidon, all taking place near Crimea and Russia's territorial waters in the Black Sea.

In general, a system of “coverage” of the Black Sea basin by the NATO bloc has been effectively formed. Which – it is worth recalling – was planned back in the early-first half of the 1950s in connection with the entry of Turkey and Greece into NATO. And in March 1953, under NATO tutelage, the “Balkan Pact” on friendship and cooperation was created, consisting of Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia.

The pact was supplemented in 1954 with agreements on mutual military assistance, but... it was not dissolved until the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1991. In the memorandum "Possibility of War with the Soviet Union, 1951-1952", expert of the NATO Military Policy Planning Division K. Savage indicated:

"...Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey represent a formidable bastion against aggression in the eastern Mediterranean region, with the adjacent Black Sea. Their combined military forces are now greater than those of all the European members of the North Atlantic Alliance. If war is forced upon us, we can hope for an offensive against the Soviet Union in this region."

And back in September-November 1951, the US and British navies received the perpetual right to use Turkish ports on the Black Sea in the event of a threat to Turkey's security or the defense capability of NATO's southern flank. This meant that operations against the USSR on the Black Sea were possible from Turkish territory.

NATO warships have been making “visits” to these ports since 1950. It is not surprising that in 1968, when Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu spoke out against the introduction of Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia, Paris, London and Ankara offered Bucharest “friendship visits” of their navies to Romanian ports.

However, the conductor did not like hasty decisions. Although he feared "revenge" from the USSR and the Warsaw Pact allies, he still did not dare to allow such visits. Today was a different matter...
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  1. +15
    28 October 2024 04: 38
    It was enough for Ukraine to lose access to the Black Sea, and the country would become practically uninteresting to most of its allies. Ukraine itself knows about this, in the first days of the SVO, the defense and protection of the Odessa direction was active, and large forces were directed at preventing our troops from consolidating in the direction of Nikolaev, which, in principle, Ukraine succeeded in. Now, cutting off Ukraine from the Black Sea looks extremely vague.
    1. +10
      28 October 2024 08: 07
      Quote from turembo
      All Ukraine had to do was lose access to the Black Sea, and the country would become of virtually no interest to most of its allies.

      Ukraine has no "allies", it has "partners" who use it for their own interests.
      Of course, it is much more convenient to export grain and minerals by sea than by rail, but its main goal is not even the export of raw materials, but a battering ram against Russia, a long military conflict between the Slavs until the complete destruction (or weakening) of the potential of the once most developed Soviet republics...
  2. +11
    28 October 2024 04: 49
    Definitely the coast should be taken back to Russia, enough of playing around. And Odessa and Nikolaev and Ochakov are Russian cities, which have nothing to do with the Svidomites.
    1. +7
      28 October 2024 04: 56
      Quote from: FoBoss_VM
      And Odessa and Nikolaev and Ochakov are Russian cities,

      They forgot about Kherson!
      1. +6
        28 October 2024 06: 57
        Kherson is a given. It is already Russian, according to the constitution. But Odessa and Nikolaev are not yet.
        1. 0
          30 October 2024 10: 13
          The Russian constitution is a flexible document, easily changed to suit the current needs of the authorities. Have you forgotten how it was re-tailed a few years ago?! Turembo is right about the fog. And in general, those who look at what is happening "on the ground" are right. It seems that Odessa and Nikolaev are no longer being discussed...
    2. +2
      29 October 2024 09: 33
      You are like children! Half of the comments from the whole mass are like this: "We must seize", "We must win", "We must destroy"! They make me smile. Everyone understands what is needed, but how can we implement it? Can you personally? Shaking the air and polluting the air. I also dream that a hamburger in New York would cost 30 rubles, and that English slaves from the Royal Parliament would work at my dacha in Northumberland.
      1. 0
        31 October 2024 17: 54
        So the majority here are pennies. It's not for nothing that they say old and young...
    3. 0
      1 November 2024 12: 37
      This is clear - but will we be able to do it!
  3. +12
    28 October 2024 05: 14
    The Western side has always proceeded from how quickly we respond to their challenges. If they receive information that the Soviet troops have been put on combat alert in response to the escalation in the Middle East, then this cools their ardor. And they look for other ways to exert pressure. This has always been the case, starting in 1949.
  4. +11
    28 October 2024 06: 08
    You look at what's happening and you're taken aback... Just look at how many problems one drunk idiot can create, and then people vote for him with their hearts...
    1. +11
      28 October 2024 06: 47
      Quote from tsvetahaki
      This is how many problems one drunk idiot can create, and then people vote for him with their hearts...

      It is unlikely that all the people will do it with all their hearts, but Moscow will do it with all its hearts.
      “He has a phenomenal ability to drink and spend money”: this is how the Soviet media covered Boris Yeltsin’s visit to the United States in 1989.
      In March 1989, dismissed from the post of First Secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee, he won with a fantastic result of 92% in the first free elections of people's deputies in the history of the USSR. He became one of the leaders of the Interregional Deputy Group - the opposition faction at the First Congress of People's Deputies.

      In Moscow, Yeltsin's popularity was incredible. He was supported by both the proponents of democratization and the orthodox communists, who believed that it was impossible for anyone to be worse than Gorbachev.

      The visit to the USA was an indulgence for the half-breed Yeltsin to reign over Russia.
      1. +7
        28 October 2024 12: 53
        The Congress of People's Deputies opened on May 25, 1989. On the very first day of the Congress's work, it elected Gorbachev Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
        Boris Yeltsin was not elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR by the congress on May 26, but on May 29, deputy Alexei Kazannik gave him his seat in the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet.
        1. 0
          30 October 2024 10: 16
          History is an exact science. Thank you, Valery!
    2. +7
      28 October 2024 08: 26
      This is how many problems one drunk idiot can create.

      Nooooo...it's not his fault. laughing "It was all Lenin (in the original Churchill) who came up with this in 1918. There he is, the snake, looming in the window, hiding his body in the mausoleum" (c) laughing Boris Nikolaevich turned everything into a talk shop and passed on this valuable quality to his successor.
      1. +7
        28 October 2024 09: 31
        Talking shop is talking shop, but he scribbled down a bourgeois constitution and pushed it through, shooting up the White House in 1993
        1. +3
          28 October 2024 09: 38
          And under the talk of a bright future, they joyfully referred it, accepted it by a majority vote, under the talk of "beat the red-browns" they shot up the White House. Do you remember the footage? When crowds of people stood on the bridge, on the balconies and took pictures of this process? And then the elections under the slogan "Vote or lose!", and the talk flowed, flowed into the ears.. So they didn't want to lose, they decided to vote, and the funniest thing is that the elections were honest, just like the referendum.
          1. +7
            28 October 2024 10: 04
            Some took pictures, while others defended the Soviet Constitution with weapons in their hands.
            This is how it is described in the CPRF Telegram channel:
            On October 4, 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin brought armored troops into Moscow to carry out his illegal decree to dissolve the Supreme Soviet. The tanks fired point-blank at the Supreme Soviet building. The leaders of the Supreme Soviet were arrested. Yeltsin's coup d'etat was over.

            By the morning of October 4, Yeltsin had pulled more than 50 troops and units loyal to him into Moscow. At 7 a.m., a punitive operation began, during which a tank company opened fire from guns on the upper floors of the House of Soviets with live ammunition, causing a fire. At 10 a.m., the acting Minister of Justice gave the order to suspend the activities of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Labor Russia, the Russian Communist Youth Union, and other organizations that had participated in the uprising against Yeltsin's dictatorship. Throughout the day, soldiers shot at the defenders of the Supreme Soviet from tanks and heavy machine guns. As a result of such actions, many people were killed and wounded, including women and minors.
            By 18 p.m., most of the Supreme Soviet building had been captured by troops loyal to Yeltsin. Ruslan Khasbulatov, Aleksandr Rutskoi, and other leaders of the House of Soviets' defense were arrested. Shootings continued in various parts of Moscow for several more hours, but the uprising of the masses was suppressed.

            According to official data alone, 74 people died, although witnesses to the events, including pro-Yeltsin forces, say that there were many times more. Having fired at the Supreme Soviet with tanks, Boris Yeltsin established a virtually one-man presidential dictatorship, which was formalized in the new Constitution adopted on December 12. Soviet power fell as a result of a coup d'etat.

            There are also rumors that snipers were working from the US embassy in support of Yeltsin.
            1. -2
              28 October 2024 10: 29
              The problem is that there were more spectators, unfortunately.
  5. +8
    28 October 2024 07: 09
    ...in 1968, when Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu spoke out against the introduction of Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia...
    However, the conductor did not like hasty decisions. Although he feared "revenge" from the USSR and the Warsaw Pact allies, he still did not dare to allow such visits.

    Oh, this reminds me of something.
    We have a similar multi-vector ally. Has the fate of the first one taught us nothing?
    1. +5
      28 October 2024 12: 30
      I see you really don't like what you haven't seen and know nothing about. Come to Belarus to live, talk to people, and then you'll write about us.
      1. 0
        28 October 2024 13: 12
        I'll be there in February.
        I go every year. I talk to people, I understand that you live a little better than us, but you don’t understand it.
        In principle, the entire post-USSR would have lived like this, only much better (more opportunities for a single superpower), if Lukashenko and Rokhlin had not been prevented by the protégé of the Putin Family (from the Sobachka team).
        And so - it turned out that way. In Belarus, nationalism was nurtured with an unsecured declaration of some "sovereignty from Russia". Batka was left only to play to keep power and the Republic afloat with the constant threat of losing statehood on both sides. As a result - he overstayed on the throne.
        Now Belarusians have a chance to break out of the vicious circle, which would otherwise lead to the demarcation of the Polish-Russian border between Smolensk and Orsha. However, many of your compatriots are ready to try on such an outcome, not realizing the costs.
        And there is a candidate among the highest echelons of power to save the country. I don't want to set the man up, we all remember how such advertising can turn out.
        1. 0
          29 October 2024 10: 37
          Yes, I see that you looked at the book (Belarus), and saw...
  6. +12
    28 October 2024 08: 37
    We have to go back again our Russian sea
    from the unrighteous country that was the Fatherland.
    We have to rise again in the lonely expanse
    on the main topmasts the pennants were not surrendered.

    We will again remember the rocks of Russian Crimea,
    Sevastopol raid and Malakhov Kurgan.
    We again have to explain what is inexplicable,
    and look through tears at the World Ocean.

    That's when we will understand the grief of our great-grandfathers.
    We could not argue with the will of God.
    Once every three quarters of a century across the Russian Sea
    Russia's ships are leaving.

    Russian sea
    Viktor Verstakov
  7. +10
    28 October 2024 09: 42
    We are being pressured so that we do not enter the Mediterranean freely. So that we do not finally begin to revive the water communications, carefully destroyed after the defeat in the Cold War, and do not develop them to the Mediterranean. That is, do not get a quasi-marine economy, and do not take an indisputable leading position in Eurasia.
    Europe has succeeded in this for centuries. At the moment, NATO is trying to contain us militarily, and the dear Mrs. Nabiullina and her friends are doing their best from our own government...
    1. 0
      28 October 2024 10: 47
      So that they don’t finally start reviving the water communications that were carefully destroyed after the defeat in the Cold War
      And who destroyed it? The Mongol-Tatars with Batu?
      1. 0
        29 October 2024 17: 10
        We were defeated. It was impossible not to carry out the will of the winner - there was no one and nothing to resist. This is what happens when you are defeated.
    2. +4
      28 October 2024 12: 36
      There is no way to freely enter the Mediterranean - first the Turkish Straits, then the Greek and Turkish islands, not to mention Sicily, Cyprus, Malta and Gibraltar. And by the way, why build such a highway? To export bread like under the Tsar? Do you really think that Europe needs us in the Mediterranean? Or do you have so many supporters and money in that region?
      1. +1
        29 October 2024 17: 08
        That's right. All these barriers have been carefully installed against us. For a long time already. But look - they're jumping up and down there, literally jumping out of their pants. And why? Nothing will come of it?)) And no one needs it?)) He-he...
    3. +1
      28 October 2024 14: 29
      and the dearest Mrs. Nabiullina and her friends are acting with all their might from our own government...


      It’s strange then why Putin nominated her for the position of Chairman of the Central Bank for the third time.
  8. +5
    28 October 2024 09: 43
    IMHO, it is presented as a VICTORY...
    But in reality - the ordinary life of "partners" in a dangerous business. Everyone is doing what they can. Everyone wants to squeeze the juices for their own benefit.
  9. +6
    28 October 2024 10: 28
    What's the news?
    Yes, during the time of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact, most of the Black Sea borders (and, accordingly, the water area) were controlled by Moscow. When the USSR was gone, the alliance of the treaty countries could not hold on, and now NATO controls most of the coast and water area.
    Actually, the situation is exactly the same in the Baltics.
    This is exactly the case when a holy place is never empty. They left the influence of the USSR - they fell under the influence of NATO
  10. +2
    28 October 2024 17: 08
    But have NATO countries Türkiye, Bulgaria and Romania lost access to the Black Sea? Or is almost 2/3 of the coastal strip not enough for them?
  11. +1
    28 October 2024 17: 16
    "The Balkan Pact" on friendship and cooperation between Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia.
    "Yugoslavia, Greece, Türkiye represent a formidable bastion against aggression in the eastern Mediterranean region, with the forefront"
    Stretching an owl onto a globe, especially considering the "mutual love" of Greece and Turkey. And the Turks don't really want to be a battering ram against Russia. The situation in the Baltics is much worse
  12. +2
    28 October 2024 18: 29
    Unfortunately, we won’t be visiting any Russian seas in the near future.
    There is nothing for us to catch in the Baltic Sea, because 1) everything is under fire 2) there are many more enemy ships.
    In the Black Sea, plus/minus the same. 1) The enemy is many times more numerous 2) The enemy controls all the straits.
    The only place where we have a chance is the Northern Seas and the Pacific Ocean.
  13. +2
    28 October 2024 18: 57
    To calm them down, Russia needs to shoot down and sink something...
  14. 0
    3 November 2024 14: 23
    And Russia has a thirst to take back Alaska and make the Gulf of Mexico Russian! So whose thirst is stronger?
  15. 0
    3 November 2024 14: 26
    To calm them down for a while, we need to take Odessa and the entire coastal territory of our Russian Black Sea and make it, like the Azov Sea, our own internal sea!